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Waterways and the Cultural Landscape

Author : Francesco Vallerani
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315398443
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Waterways and the Cultural Landscape written by Francesco Vallerani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water control and management have been fundamental to the building of human civilisation. In Europe, the regulation of major rivers, the digging of canals and the wetland reclamation schemes from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, generated new typologies of waterscapes with significant implications for the people who resided within them. This book explores the role of waterways as a form of heritage, culture and sense of place and the potential of this to underpin the development of cultural tourism. With a multidisciplinary approach across the social sciences and humanities, chapters explore how the control and management of water flows are among some of the most significant human activities to transform the natural environment. Based upon a wealth and breadth of European case studies, the book uncovers the complex relationships we have with waterways, the ways that they have been represented over recent centuries and the ways in which they continue to be redefined in different cultural contexts. Contributions recognise not only valuable assets of hydrology that are at the core of landscape management, but also more intangible aspects that matter to people, such as their familiarity, affecting what is understood as the fluvial sense of place. This highly original collection will be of interest to those working in cultural tourism, cultural geography, heritage studies, cultural history, landscape studies and leisure studies.

Rivers and Society

Author : Malcolm Cooper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317396111
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Rivers and Society written by Malcolm Cooper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rivers and their watersheds constitute some of the most dynamic and complex landscapes. Rivers have sustained human communities, and human societies have utilized and altered river flows in a number of ways for millennia. However, the level of human impact on rivers, and on watershed environments, has become acute during the last hundred years or so. This book brings together empirical research and theoretical perspectives on the changing conditions of a range of river basin environments in the contemporary world, including the history and culture of local societies living in these river basins. It provides theoretical insights on the patterns and nature of the interaction between rivers and their use by human communities. The chapters are written from a variety of positions, including environmental science, hydrology, human ecology, urban studies, water management, historical geography, cultural anthropology and tourism studies. The case studies span different geographical regions, providing valuable insight on the multifaceted interactions between rivers and our societies, and on the changing riverscapes in different parts of the world. Specific detailed examples are included from Australia, Brazil, France, India, Iran, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, UK and USA. Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Rivers in History

Author : Christof Mauch
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822973413
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Rivers in History written by Christof Mauch and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2008-07-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, rivers have run a wide course through human temporal and spiritual experience. They have demarcated mythological worlds, framed the cradle of Western civilization, and served as physical and psychological boundaries among nations. Rivers have become a crux of transportation, industry, and commerce. They have been loved as nurturing providers, nationalist symbols, and the source of romantic lore but also loathed as sites of conflict and natural disaster. Rivers in History presents one of the first comparative histories of rivers on the continents of Europe and North America in the modern age. The contributors examine the impact of rivers on humans and, conversely, the impact of humans on rivers. They view this dynamic relationship through political, cultural, industrial, social, and ecological perspectives in national and transnational settings. As integral sources of food and water, local and international transportation, recreation, and aesthetic beauty, rivers have dictated where cities have risen, and in times of flooding, drought, and war, where they've fallen. Modern Western civilizations have sought to control rivers by channeling them for irrigation, raising and lowering them in canal systems, and damming them for power generation. Contributors analyze the regional, national, and international politicization of rivers, the use and treatment of waterways in urban versus rural environments, and the increasing role of international commissions in ecological and commercial legislation for the protection of river resources. Case studies include the Seine in Paris, the Mississippi, the Volga, the Rhine, and the rivers of Pittsburgh. Rivers in History is a broad environmental history of waterways that makes a major contribution to the study, preservation, and continued sustainability of rivers as vital lifelines of Western culture.

Cultural Landscape Report for the Historic Motor Road System, Acadia National Park

Author : Jeffrey Killion
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Landscape Report for the Historic Motor Road System, Acadia National Park written by Jeffrey Killion and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

River Culture

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9231005405
Total Pages : 893 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book River Culture written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-05 with total page 893 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Legal Choice in a Cultural Landscape

Author : Adam D. Friedman
Publisher : Program in Maritime Studies East Carolina University
ISBN 13 : 9780979990953
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Legal Choice in a Cultural Landscape written by Adam D. Friedman and published by Program in Maritime Studies East Carolina University. This book was released on 2008 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Humans in the Land

Author : Sven Arntzen
Publisher : Oslo Academic Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humans in the Land written by Sven Arntzen and published by Oslo Academic Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The concept of cultural landscape has become significant in social and political decision making, in environmental management and preservation and in diverse academic disciplines. This book reflects on the philosophical presuppositions underlying discussions about landscapes which lie in the space between natural and built environments. With their focus on ethical and aesthetic considerations regarding the cultural landscape, the topics here address, in particular, the qualitative aspects of approaches to the environment."--BOOK JACKET.

The Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology

Author : Alexis Catsambis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199336008
Total Pages : 1234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology written by Alexis Catsambis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is a comprehensive survey of maritime archaeology as seen through the eyes of nearly fifty scholars at a time when maritime archaeology has established itself as a mature branch of archaeology.

Germany's Nature

Author : Thomas Lekan
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813537703
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Germany's Nature written by Thomas Lekan and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-23 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germany boasts one of the strongest environmental records in the world. The Rhine River is cleaner than it has been in decades, recycling is considered a civic duty, and German manufacturers of pollution-control technology export their products around the globe. Yet, little has been written about the country's remarkable environmental history, and even less of that research is available in English. Now for the first time, a survey of the country's natural and cultural landscapes is available in one volume. Essays by leading scholars of history, geography, and the social sciences move beyond the Green movement to uncover the enduring yet ever-changing cultural patterns, social institutions, and geographic factors that have sustained Germany's relationship to its land. Unlike the American environmental movement, which is still dominated by debates about wilderness conservation and the retention of untouched spaces, discussions of the German landscape have long recognized human impact as part of the "natural order." Drawing on a variety of sites as examples, including forests, waterways, the Autobahn, and natural history museums, the essays demonstrate how environmental debates in Germany have generally centered on the best ways to harmonize human priorities and organic order, rather than on attempts to reify wilderness as a place to escape from industrial society. Germany's Nature is essential reading for students and professionals working in the fields of environmental studies, European history, and the history of science and technology.

Fluid Pasts

Author : Matt Edgeworth
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 : 071563982X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Fluid Pasts written by Matt Edgeworth and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise and original account of approaches to the archaeology of rivers and flowing water.

The River Runs Through It

Author : Laurie Sommers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781466261365
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book The River Runs Through It written by Laurie Sommers and published by . This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fishtown Preservation Society seeks to preserve the historical integrity of Leland, Michigan's Fishtown property and ensure that it continues as a publicly accessible and authentic connection to local and regional history, Great Lakes commercial fishing, and maritime traditions and experiences.

The Cultural Geography of Early Modern Drama, 1620–1650

Author : Julie Sanders
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139497340
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Geography of Early Modern Drama, 1620–1650 written by Julie Sanders and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary geographies is an exciting new area of interdisciplinary research. Innovative and engaging, this book applies theories of landscape, space and place from the discipline of cultural geography within an early modern historical context. Different kinds of drama and performance are analysed: from commercial drama by key playwrights to household masques and entertainment performed by families and in semi-official contexts. Sanders provides a fresh look at works from the careers of Ben Jonson, John Milton and Richard Brome, paying attention to geographical spaces and habitats like forests, coastlines and arctic landscapes of ice and snow, as well as the more familiar locales of early modern country estates and city streets and spaces. Overall, the book encourages readers to think about geography as kinetic, embodied and physical, not least in its literary configurations, presenting a key contribution to early modern scholarship.

Goodbye to a River

Author : John Graves
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307773353
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Goodbye to a River written by John Graves and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch of the river, which he had known intimately as a youth. Goodbye to a River is his account of that farewell canoe voyage. As he braves rapids and fatigue and the fickle autumn weather, he muses upon old blood feuds of the region and violent skirmishes with native tribes, and retells wild stories of courage and cowardice and deceit that shaped both the river’s people and the land during frontier times and later. Nearly half a century after its initial publication, Goodbye to a River is a true American classic, a vivid narrative about an exciting journey and a powerful tribute to a vanishing way of life and its ever-changing natural environment.

Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage

Author : Carola Hein
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030002683
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage written by Carola Hein and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Open Access book, building on research initiated by scholars from the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development (CHGD) and ICOMOS Netherlands, presents multidisciplinary research that connects water to heritage. Through twenty-one chapters it explores landscapes, cities, engineering structures and buildings from around the world. It describes how people have actively shaped the course, form and function of water for human settlement and the development of civilizations, establishing socio-economic structures, policies and cultures; a rich world of narratives, laws and practices; and an extensive network of infrastructure, buildings and urban form. The book is organized in five thematic sections that link practices of the past to the design of the present and visions of the future: part I discusses drinking water management; part II addresses water use in agriculture; part III explores water management for land reclamation and defense; part IV examines river and coastal planning; and part V focuses on port cities and waterfront regeneration. Today, the many complex systems of the past are necessarily the basis for new systems that both preserve the past and manage water today: policy makers and designers can work together to recognize and build on the traditional knowledge and skills that old structure embody. This book argues that there is a need for a common agenda and an integrated policy that addresses the preservation, transformation and adaptive reuse of historic water-related structures. Throughout, it imagines how such efforts will help us develop sustainable futures for cities, landscapes and bodies of water.

Evaluating Cultural Heritage and Landscapes

Author :
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN 13 : 9789289307802
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Evaluating Cultural Heritage and Landscapes written by and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

So Glorious a Landscape

Author : Chris J. Magoc
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461666279
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book So Glorious a Landscape written by Chris J. Magoc and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So Glorious a Landscape: Nature and the Environment in American History and Culture surveys the vast and interdisciplinary subject of American natural and environmental studies. It examines the literary landscape that has inspired a local, regional, and national sense of place; explores the dynamic meaning and significance of nature across time, place, culture, and gender; and looks at the essence and history of environmental change. The first all-encompassing introductory survey of environ-mental history and cultural studies, this volume provides students and scholars with carefully chosen selections from major essayists, naturalists, preachers, geographers,novelists, scientists, and historians whose works have shaped the fields of literary ecology and environmental history. The essays trace the changing American landscape and ideas about nature from the seventeenth century to the present. By analyzing a range of material, So Glorious a Landscape provides a fresh perspective on what nature is in American life, what forces have shaped its profound place and changing definition, and what the work of environmental historians tells about the relationship of nature, culture, and power in America. So Glorious a Landscape is an excellent resource for courses in American studies, environmental history, and American culture.

Exploring the Brazos River

Author : Jim Kimmel
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603444807
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Exploring the Brazos River written by Jim Kimmel and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Come with us to learn about a great Texas river ... We will explore ... camp on its banks ... and look for places of excitement, beauty and learning - some of them surprising." From its ancient headwaters on the semiarid plains of eastern New Mexico to its mouth at the Gulf of Mexico, the Brazos River carves a huge and paradoxical crescent through Texas geography and history.