The Arcadian friends : inventing the English landscape garden 9780593052730, 0593052730

Arcadian Visions: Pastoral Influences on Poetry, Painting and the Design of Landscape 9781909686663, 9781909686670, 9781909686694

This book is about Arcadia and the pastoral tradition; what it has meant for successive generations and their vision of

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The Chinese Garden : Garden Types for Contemporary Landscape Architecture 9783034610650, 9783034602228

With their centuries-long development, the English landscape garden, the formal French garden, as well Japanese and Chin

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The Chinese Garden: Garden Types for Contemporary Landscape Architecture 9783034610650, 9783034602228

An important garden type as inspirationfor contemporary landscape design With their centuries-long development, the En

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Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language 9780231510769

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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The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700 9780226710846

In medieval and early modern Europe, the practice of alchemy promised extraordinary physical transformations. Who would

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The Monster in the Garden: The Grotesque and the Gigantic in Renaissance Landscape Design 9780812291872

In The Monster in the Garden, Luke Morgan develops a new conceptual model of Renaissance landscape design, arguing that

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An Economic History of the English Garden 9780241235577

At least since the seventeenth century, most of the English population have been unable to stop making, improving and dr

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Inventing the Future

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The Medieval English Landscape, 1000–1540 9781472599247, 9781441135063, 9781441135254

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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Landscape and Ideology: The English Rustic Tradition, 1740-1860 0520052870

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