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Sensible Places: essays on place, time, & countryside

Author : GMW Wemyss
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105868141
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Sensible Places: essays on place, time, & countryside written by GMW Wemyss and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-06-17 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed author of works on the fall of the Chamberlain government and on the sinking of RMS Titanic, GMW Wemyss is also the West Country's beloved essayist, here returning to rural matters and their cosmic echoes and harmonies in this seasoned and seasonal collection of essays. Sheep, chalk-streams, eccentric neighbours, Evensong, village cricket, Lib Dems in the wild, the pub and the parish jumble: here are reportage, reminiscence, and a gift for making the daily round a meditation upon eternity.Elegant, epigrammatic, and acute, these meditations and essays form a countryman's calendar of changeful time and the eternal moment: life in sprung rhythm. This is a countryside classic, wise and humane, after the fashion of Gissing's Henry Ryecroft and the memoirs of Adrian Bell.

Sensible Places

Author : G. Wemyss
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781481143646
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Sensible Places written by G. Wemyss and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parliamentary historian, chronicler of Titanic's sinking and Churchill's ascent, annotator of Kipling and of Kenneth Grahame: GMW Wemyss is, admittedly, these, but much more is he the West Country's beloved essayist, the wry, fond observer of rural humour, chalk-streams, proper gardens, and real ale; village cricket, Evensong, and Lib Dems in their natural habitat. These collected essays tell of the great themes and small doings of the Valley of the River Wylye, the twenty-st- ... er, twenty-scone Baker's Daughter and her dreams of an empire of the Higher Nosh, river and village, trout and change-ringing, funerals and fêtes. His jewel-like essays, 'The River' - charting the rise of the Wylye and its course to the sea - and 'The Village', analysing with wit and learning the development of British settlement patterns from Downton to the Palæolithic, are pride of place in this volume. Yet trout on the dry-fly and ghostly terrors, scrumpy and silver bands, poets and pubs, rascals and Remembrance Sundays, all receive their equal due in these warm, wise, and affectionate observations. As he observes, 'townies think Thelwell a caricaturist: we know he drew from life'; and here the England of Sir John Betjeman and Miss Read, Barbara Pym and SR Badmin, lives on, in secret corners of country lanes, beneath a skylark's skies. White horses in the chalk, the downs and the cathedral's spire, heritage steam trains and off-spin hit for six: here is a feast for mind and senses.

Mapping the Invisible Landscape

Author : Kent C. Ryden
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 9781587292088
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Mapping the Invisible Landscape written by Kent C. Ryden and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any landscape has an unseen component: a subjective component of experience, memory, and narrative which people familiar with the place understand to be an integral part of its geography but which outsiders may not suspect the existence ofOCounless they listen and read carefully. This invisible landscape is make visible though stories, and these stories are the focus of this engrossing book. Traveling across the invisible landscape in which we imaginatively dwell, Kent RydenOCohimself a most careful listener and readerOCoasks the following questions. What categories of meaning do we read into our surroundings? What forms of expression serve as the most reliable maps to understanding those meanings? Our sense of any place, he argues, consists of a deeply ingrained experiential knowledge of its physical makeup; an awareness of its communal and personal history; a sense of our identity as being inextricably bound up with its events and ways of life; and an emotional reaction, positive or negative, to its meanings and memories. Ryden demonstrates that both folk and literary narratives about place bear a striking thematic and stylistic resemblance. Accordingly, "Mapping the Invisible Landscape" examines both kinds of narratives. For his oral materials, Ryden provides an in-depth analysis of narratives collected in the Coeur d'Alene mining district in the Idaho panhandle; for his consideration of written works, he explores the OC essay of place, OCO the personal essay which takes as its subject a particular place and a writer's relationship to that place. Drawing on methods and materials from geography, folklore, and literature, "Mapping the Invisible Landscape" offers a broadly interdisciplinary analysis of the way we situate ourselves imaginatively in the landscape, the way we inscribe its surface with stories. Written in an extremely engaging style, this book will lead its readers to an awareness of the vital role that a sense of place plays in the formation of local cultures, to an understanding of the many-layered ways in which place interacts with individual lives, and to renewed appreciation of the places in their own lives and landscapes."

The Absent Hand

Author : Suzannah Lessard
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640092226
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Absent Hand written by Suzannah Lessard and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Of beach plums, ramps, and Ramada Inns: a quietly sensitive eminently sensible consideration of the landscapes of our lives . . . A gift." —Kirkus Reviews Following her bestselling The Architect of Desire, Suzannah Lessard returns with a remarkable book, a work of relentless curiosity and a graceful mixture of observation and philosophy. This intriguing hybrid will remind some of W. G. Sebald’s work and others of Rebecca Solnit’s, but it is Lessard’s singular talent to combine this profound book–length mosaic— a blend of historical travelogue, reportorial probing, philosophical meditation, and prose poem—into a work of unique genius, as she describes and reimagines our landscapes. In this exploration of our surroundings, The Absent Hand contends that to reimagine landscape is a form of cultural reinvention. This engrossing work of literary nonfiction is a deep dive into our surroundings—cities, countryside, and sprawl—exploring change in the meaning of place and reimagining the world in a time of transition. Whether it be climate change altering the meaning of nature, or digital communications altering the nature of work, the effects of global enclosure on the meaning of place are panoramic, infiltrative, inescapable. No one will finish this book, this journey, without having their ideas of living and settling in their surroundings profoundly enriched.

The Rural

Author : Richard Munton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351882384
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book The Rural written by Richard Munton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rural has long been regarded as an important site of geographical inquiry even if our understanding of it has not always been treated as conceptually different from the urban. That said, rural research has pursued a number of distinct empirical agendas ranging from the operation and impacts of agribusiness, to local resistance to global food supply chains, to differing representations of the rural. In doing so, rural geographers have critically examined the relevance and significance of ideas drawn from numerous traditions including political economy, ecological modernization and cultural theory, amending them as appropriate, in their search to understand the nature and trajectory of rural areas. Up until the 1980s, attention remained largely focused upon agriculture as the primary land-use but increasingly new forms of rural consumption - housing, recreation, nature conservation - have taken centre stage as the primacy of local agricultures has been undermined by reduced state protection and 'new' rural populations which have migrated out from the city. More recently, research has been dominated by the 'cultural turn' with particular emphases upon society-nature relations, interpretations of landscape, marginalised others, and analyses of the relations between representation and practice. In the last decade, a more holistic view of the rural, bringing together different aspects of the two previous themes, has emerged through more politically-oriented studies of rural governance concerned with the functioning of interest groups, participation, protest and the allocation and management of resources. The volume is thus structured into three sections concerned with agriculture and food, the rural, and rural governance. The great majority of the selected papers combine both empirical material - often highly informative case studies - and important conceptual arguments about change in the rural condition that can be linked to ideas being employed elsewhere in Geography and the Social Sciences more generally. These critical reflections have been drawn very largely from research conducted in advanced economies which at least provide some commonality of experience allowing the transfer of ideas between what otherwise might be seen as very differing geographical contexts.

The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space

Author : Robert Tally Jr.
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317596943
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space written by Robert Tally Jr. and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "spatial turn" in literary studies is transforming the way we think of the field. The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space maps the key areas of spatiality within literary studies, offering a comprehensive overview but also pointing towards new and exciting directions of study. The interdisciplinary and global approach provides a thorough introduction and includes thirty-two essays on topics such as: Spatial theory and practice Critical methodologies Work sites Cities and the geography of urban experience Maps, territories, readings. The contributors to this volume demonstrate how a variety of romantic, realist, modernist, and postmodernist narratives represent the changing social spaces of their world, and of our own world system today.

Historic Cities

Author : Jeff Cody
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606065939
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Historic Cities written by Jeff Cody and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume in the GCI's Readings in Conservation series brings together a selection of seminal writings on the conservation of historic cities. This book, the eighth in the Getty Conservation Institute’s Readings in Conservation series, fills a significant gap in the published literature on urban conservation. This topic is distinct from both heritage conservation and urban planning despite the recent growth of urbanism worldwide, no single volume has presented a comprehensive selection of these important writings until now. This anthology, profusely illustrated throughout, is organized into eight parts, covering such subjects as geographic diversity, reactions to the transformation of traditional cities, reading the historic city, the search for contextual continuities, the search for values, and the challenges of sustainability. With more than sixty-five texts, ranging from early polemics by Victor Hugo and John Ruskin to a generous selection of recent scholarship, this book thoroughly addresses regions around the globe. Each reading is introduced by short prefatory remarks explaining the rationale for its selection and the principal matters covered. The book will serve as an easy reference for administrators, professionals, teachers, and students faced with the day-to-day challenges confronting the historic city under siege by rampant development.

Guibert’s General Essay on Tactics

Author : Jonathan Abel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004498214
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Guibert’s General Essay on Tactics written by Jonathan Abel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award 2023 (Reference) “’The God of War’ is near to revealing himself, because we have heard his prophet.” So wrote Jean Colin, naming Napoleon the God of War and Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de Guibert, as his prophet. Guibert was the foremost philosopher of the Military Enlightenment, dedicating his career to systematizing warfare in a single document. The result was his magnum opus, the General Essay on Tactics, which helped to lay the foundation for the success of French armies during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. It is presented here in English for the first time since the 1780s, with extensive annotation and contextualization.

Rural Change and Planning

Author : Gordon Cherry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135827354
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Rural Change and Planning written by Gordon Cherry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical overview of rural change over the eighty years since the outbreak of the Great War, making clear the historical origins of present-day policy. It also provides a structural integration for the many diverse themes which must be interwoven in order to understand current conditions in the countryside.

The Country and the City

Author : Raymond Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195198102
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book The Country and the City written by Raymond Williams and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1975 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a brilliant survey of English literature in terms of changing attitudes towards country and city, Williams' highly-acclaimed study reveals the shifting images and associations between these two traditional poles of life throughout the major developmental periods of English culture.

Planning for Place and Plexus

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113597456X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Planning for Place and Plexus written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sculpture and the Garden

Author : Patrick Eyres
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754630302
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Sculpture and the Garden written by Patrick Eyres and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the integration of sculpture in gardens is part of a long tradition dating back at least to antiquity, the sculptures themselves are often overlooked, both in the history of art and in the history of the garden. This collection of essays considers the changing relationship between sculpture and gardens over the last three centuries, focusing on four British archetypes: the Georgian landscape garden, the Victorian urban park, the outdoor spaces of twentieth-century modernism and the late-twentieth century sculpture park. Through a series of case studies exploring the contemporaneous audiences of gardens, the book uncovers the social, political and gendered messages revealed by sculpture's placement and suggests that the garden can itself be read as a sculptural landscape.

City Of Cities

Author : Stephen Inwood
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 033054067X
Total Pages : 783 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book City Of Cities written by Stephen Inwood and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1880, London, capital of the largest empire ever known, was the richest, most populous city in the world. And yet it remained an overcrowded, undergoverned city with huge slums gripped by poverty and disease. Over the next three decades, London began its transformation into a new kind of city - one of unprecedented size, dynamism and technological advance. In this highly evocative account, Stephen Iinwood defines an era of unique character and importance by delving into the lives and textures of the booming city. He takes us - by hansom cab, bicycle, electric tram or motor bus - from the glittering new department stores of Oxford Street to the synagogues and sweat shops of the East End, from bohemian bars and gaudy mushc halls to the well-kept gardens of Edwardian surburbia. 'Essential reading for the scholar, the historian and the lover of London. ..He is equally at home with the grand sweep and the human detail, always supported by immaculate research...Inwood can throw off with elegant ease a concise explanation of technicalities that the reader was vaguely aware of not understanding and perhaps meant to look up sometime.' Liza Picard Financial Times Magazine

From Millet to Léger

Author : Robert L. Herbert
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300097061
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book From Millet to Léger written by Robert L. Herbert and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a preface prepared for this volume, Herbert explains that these essays are linked by a focus on the relation of art to the urban-industrial revolution."--BOOK JACKET.

Planning in Postmodern Times

Author : Philip Allmendinger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134567324
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Planning in Postmodern Times written by Philip Allmendinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodern social theory has provided significant insights into our understanding of society and its components. Key thinkers including Foucault, Baudrillard and Lyotard have challenged existing ideas about power and rationality in society. This book analyses planning from a postmodern perspective and explores alternative conceptions based on a combination of postmodern thinking and other fields of social theory. In doing so, it exposes some of the limits of postmodern social theory while providing an alternative conception of planning in the twenty-first century. This title will appeal to anyone interested in how we think and act in relation to cities, urban planning and governance.

The Cambridge History of China: Volume 15, The People's Republic, Part 2, Revolutions Within the Chinese Revolution, 1966-1982

Author : John K. Fairbank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521243377
Total Pages : 1142 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of China: Volume 15, The People's Republic, Part 2, Revolutions Within the Chinese Revolution, 1966-1982 written by John K. Fairbank and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-11-29 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International scholars and sinologists discuss culture, economic growth, social change, political processes, and foreign influences in China since the earliest pre-dynastic period.

North of the DMZ

Author : Andrei Lankov
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786451416
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book North of the DMZ written by Andrei Lankov and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kim dynasty has ruled North Korea for over 60 years. Most of that period has found the country suffering under mature Stalinism characterized by manipulation, brutality and tight social control. Nevertheless, some citizens of Kim Jong Il's regime manage to transcend his tyranny in their daily existence. This book describes that difficult but f existence and the world that the North Koreans have created for themselves in the face of oppression. Many features of this world are unique and even bizarre. But they have been created by the citizens to reflect their own ideas and values, in sharp contrast to the world forced upon them by a totalitarian system. Opening chapters introduce the political system and the extent to which it permeates citizens' daily lives, from the personal status badges they wear to the nationalized distribution of the food they eat. Chapters discussing the schools, the economic system, and family life dispel the myth of the workers' paradise that North Korea attempts to perpetuate. In these chapters the intricacies of daily life in a totalitarian dictatorship are seen through the eyes of defectors whose anecdotes constitute an important portion of the material. The closing chapter treats at length the significant changes that have taken place in North Korea over the last decade, concluding that these changes will lead to the quiet but inevitable death of North Korean Stalinism. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.