Transformed Landscapes

Author : Walid Khalidi
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774162473
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Transformed Landscapes written by Walid Khalidi and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collective look at aspects of the historical background to the continuing Palestinian question

Author : Kate Luce Mulry
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479895261
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book An Empire Transformed written by Kate Luce Mulry and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the efforts to bring political order to the English empire through projects of environmental improvement When Charles II ascended the English throne in 1660 after two decades of civil war, he was confronted with domestic disarray and a sprawling empire in chaos. His government sought to assert control and affirm the King’s sovereignty by touting his stewardship of both England’s land and the improvement of his subjects’ health. By initiating ambitious projects of environmental engineering, including fen and marshland drainage, forest rehabilitation, urban reconstruction, and garden transplantation schemes, agents of the English Restoration government aimed to transform both places and people in service of establishing order. Merchants, colonial officials, and members of the Royal Society encouraged royal intervention in places deemed unhealthy, unproductive, or poorly managed. Their multiple schemes reflected an enduring belief in the complex relationships between the health of individual bodies, personal and communal character, and the landscapes they inhabited. In this deeply researched work, Kate Mulry highlights a period of innovation during which officials reassessed the purpose of colonies, weighed their benefits and drawbacks, and engineered and instituted a range of activities in relation to subjects’ bodies and material environments. These wide-ranging actions offer insights about how restoration officials envisioned authority within a changing English empire. An Empire Transformed is an interdisciplinary work addressing a series of interlocking issues concerning ideas about the environment, governance, and public health in the early modern English Atlantic empire.

Author : Katherine A. Spielmann
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816535698
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Landscapes of Social Transformation in the Salinas Province and the Eastern Pueblo World written by Katherine A. Spielmann and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on 16 seasons of field work, this volume provides an in-depth look at New Mexico's Salinas Pueblo and explains its relevance to Southwestern archaeology--Provided by publisher.

Author : Roxi Thoren
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 160469386X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Landscapes of Change written by Roxi Thoren and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2014-12-21 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change, natural resource use, population shifts, and many other factors have all changed the demands we place on landscape designs. Projects now have to help connect neighborhoods, absorb stormwater, cool urban centers, and provide wildlife habitats. Landscapes of Change examines how these challenges drive the design process, inspire new design strategies, and result in innovative works that are redefining the field of landscape architecture. In 25 case studies from around the world, Roxi Thoren explores how the site can serve as the design generator, describing each project through the physical, material, ecological, and cultural processes that have shaped the site historically and continue to shape these ground-breaking projects.

Author : Gloria Loughman
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1607056305
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Radiant Landscapes written by Gloria Loughman and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2013 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, readers can discover how to add dramatic depth to their landscape applique quilts using easy-to-follow techniques from master quilter Gloria Loughman."

Author : Colleen C. Myles
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496207769
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Fermented Landscapes written by Colleen C. Myles and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fermented Landscapes applies the concept of fermentation as a mechanism through which to understand and analyze processes of landscape change. This comprehensive conceptualization of “fermented landscapes” examines the excitement, unrest, and agitation evident across shifting physical-environmental and sociocultural landscapes as related to the production, distribution, and consumption of fermented products. This collection includes a variety of perspectives on wine, beer, and cider geographies, as well as the geography of other fermented products, considering the use of “local” materials in craft beverages as a function of neolocalism and sustainability and the nonhuman elements of fermentation. Investigating the environmental, economic, and sociocultural implications of fermentation in expected and unexpected places and ways allows for a complex study of rural-urban exchanges or metabolisms over time and space—an increasingly relevant endeavor in socially and environmentally challenged contexts, global and local.

Author : Joyce Hicks
Publisher : North Light Books
ISBN 13 : 9781440329579
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Painting Beautiful Watercolor Landscapes written by Joyce Hicks and published by North Light Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full-color guide teachers budding artists how to paint beautiful scenes with 12 step-by-step demonstrations from a master artist.

Author : Lesley Head
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317835972
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Cultural Landscapes and Environmental Change written by Lesley Head and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural landscapes are usually understood within physical geography as those transformed by human action. As human influence on the earth increases, advances in palaeocological reconstruction have also allowed for new interpretations of the evidence for the earliest human impacts on the environment. It is essential that such evidence is examined in the context of modern trends in social sciences and humanities. This stimulating new book argues that convergence of the two approaches can provide a more holistic understanding of long-term physical and human processes. Split into two major sections, this book attempts to bridge the gap between the sciences and humanities. The first section, provides an analysis of the methodological tools employed in examining processes of environmental change. Empirical research in the fields of palaecology and Quaternary studies is combined with the latest theoretical views of nature and landscape occurring in cultural geography, archaeology and anthropology. The author examines the way in which environmental management decisions are made. The book then moves on to discuss the relevance of this perspective to contemporary issues through a wide variety of international case studies, including World Heritage protection, landscape preservation, indigenous people and cultural tourism.

Author : Gary Backhaus
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739103364
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Transformations of Urban and Suburban Landscapes written by Gary Backhaus and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of landscape and place has become an increasingly fertile realm of inquiry in the humanities and social sciences. In this new book of essays, selected from presentations at the first annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Geography, scholars investigate the experiences and meanings that inscribe urban and suburban landscapes. Gary Backhaus and John Murungi bring philosophy and geography into a dialogue with a host of other disciplines to explore a fundamental dialectic: while our collective and personal activity modifies the landscape, in turn, the landscape modifies human identities, and social and environmental relations. Whether proposing a peripatetic politics, conducting a sociological analysis of building security systems, or critically examining the formation of New York City's municipal parks, each essay sheds distinctive light on this fascinating and engaging aspect of contemporary environmental studies.

Author : Jeff Oliver
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816527878
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast written by Jeff Oliver and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nordamerika - Kolonialzeit - Landschaft - Raumkonzepte - soziale Konstruktion.