Between 1715 and 1750 a group of politicians and poets, farmers and businessmen, heiresses and landowners began to exper
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This book is about Arcadia and the pastoral tradition; what it has meant for successive generations and their vision of
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With their centuries-long development, the English landscape garden, the formal French garden, as well Japanese and Chin
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An important garden type as inspirationfor contemporary landscape design With their centuries-long development, the En
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Seth Lerer tells a masterful history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem. Though many h
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In medieval and early modern Europe, the practice of alchemy promised extraordinary physical transformations. Who would
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In The Monster in the Garden, Luke Morgan develops a new conceptual model of Renaissance landscape design, arguing that
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At least since the seventeenth century, most of the English population have been unable to stop making, improving and dr
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The landscape of medieval England was the product of a multitude of hands. While the power to shape the landscape inevit
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