Ideology and Landscape in Historical Perspective: Essays on the Meanings of some Places in the Past

by Edited by Alan R. H. Baker , Gideon Biger

• ISBN13: 9780521024709
• ISBN10: 0521024706
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-16
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Landscapes of material are also landscapes of meaning: praxis is itself symbolic, and all landscapes are symbolic in practice. Ideology and Landscape in Historical Perspective draws together fifteen historical geographers to examine landscapes as messages to be decoded, and as signs to be deciphered. The range of examples is wide in terms of period, from the medieval to the modern, and of place, embracing the United States, Canada, Palestine, Israel, South Africa, India, Singapore, France and Germany. Each essay addresses a specific problem, but collectively they are principally concerned with the ideologies of religion and of politics, of church and state, and their historical impress upon landscapes.

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of Contributors

Preface

Introduction: on ideology and landscape Alan R. H. Baker

1. Ideology and landscape in early printed maps of Jerusalem Rehav Rubin

2. Ideological contexts and the reconstruction of biblical landscapes in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries: Dr Edward Wells and the historical geography of the Holy Land Robin A. Butlin

3. Land-God-man: concepts of land ownership in traditional cultures in Eretz-Israel Ruth Kark

4. Religious ideology and landscape formation: the case of the German Templars in Eretz-Israel Yossi Ben-Artzi

5. Planned temple towns and Brahmin villages as spatial expressions of the ritual politics of medieval kingdoms in South India Hans-Jü

rgen Nitz

6. Territorial strategies applied to captive peoples D. W. Meinig

7. Ideology and landscape of settler colonialism in Virginia and Dutch South Africa: a comparative analysis Leonard Guelke

8. Municipal sanitary ideology and the control of the urban environment in colonial Singapore Brenda S. A. Yeoh

9. Ideology and the landscape of British Palestine, 1918-1929 Gideon Biger

10. Ideology, identity, landscape and society in the lower colonies of British North America, 1840-1860 Graeme Wynn

11. Interpreting a nation's identity: artists as creators of national consciousness Brian S. Osborne

12. Collective consciousness and the local landscape: national ideology and the commune council of Mesland (Loir-et-Cher) as landscape architect during the nineteenth century Alan R. H. Baker

13. A contrast of Old World ideology: Germans and Scotch-Irish in the Ozarks Russel L. Gerlach

14. Ideology in the planned order upon the land: the example of Germany Dietrich Denecke

15. Parading: a lively tradition in early Victorian Toronto Peter G. Goheen

Index.