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Ideas of landscape / Matthew Johnson.

By: Johnson, Matthew, 1962-Contributor(s): Wiley InterScience (Online service)Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 242 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780470773680; 0470773685; 9781405178334; 1405178337; 9781405101592; 1405101598; 9781405101608; 1405101601; 128085085X; 9781280850851Subject(s): Great Britain -- Historical geography | Landscape archaeology -- Great Britain | Land use -- Great Britain -- History | Great Britain -- Historical geography | History | Land use | Land use -- Great Britain -- History | Landscape archaeology -- Great Britain | Landscape archaeology | Archéologie du paysage -- Grande-Bretagne | Sol, Utilisation du -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire | Grande-Bretagne -- Géographie historique | HISTORY -- Ancient -- General | Historical geography | Land use | Landscape archaeology | Great Britain | LandskapsarkeologiGenre/Form: Electronic books. | History.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ideas of landscape.DDC classification: 936.2 LOC classification: DA600 | .J64 2007ebOnline resources: Wiley Online Library

Contents:

IDEAS OF LANDSCAPE; CONTENTS; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; The Argument; Preface: Thinking about Swaledale; 1. Introduction; 2. Lonely as a Cloud; 3. A Good Pair of Boots; 4. The Loss of Innocence; 5. Landscape Archaeology Today; 6. The Politics of Landscape; 7. Conclusion; Glossary; References; Index.

Summary: "Ideas of Landscape" offers an engaging discussion of the theory and practice of landscape archaeology today. Drawing on his local experience, Matthew Johnson focuses on the so-called English landscape tradition and discusses why it is so distinctive: it stands at some distance from North American and other approaches, in which "theory" plays a more prominent role. Johnson identifies the origins of this tradition in English Romanticism, through the influence of the "father of landscape history" W.G. Hoskins among others, and argues that the strengths and weaknesses of landscape archaeology can be traced back to the underlying theoretical discontents of the Romantic movement. He offers an alternative agenda, which maps more closely on to the established empirical strengths of landscape study and is more relevant both to the thrust of interdisciplinary landscape studies and to contemporary social concerns. Passionately and accessibly written, this engaging book takes up a crucial strand in archaeological thinking and examines it critically for the first time.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-231) and index.

"Ideas of Landscape" offers an engaging discussion of the theory and practice of landscape archaeology today. Drawing on his local experience, Matthew Johnson focuses on the so-called English landscape tradition and discusses why it is so distinctive: it stands at some distance from North American and other approaches, in which "theory" plays a more prominent role. Johnson identifies the origins of this tradition in English Romanticism, through the influence of the "father of landscape history" W.G. Hoskins among others, and argues that the strengths and weaknesses of landscape archaeology can be traced back to the underlying theoretical discontents of the Romantic movement. He offers an alternative agenda, which maps more closely on to the established empirical strengths of landscape study and is more relevant both to the thrust of interdisciplinary landscape studies and to contemporary social concerns. Passionately and accessibly written, this engaging book takes up a crucial strand in archaeological thinking and examines it critically for the first time.

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