The Parks and Gardens of Britain : : A Landscape History from the Air / / Christopher Taylor.
This seminal study, from one of Britain's most eminent landscape historians, takes a chronological tour through British parks and gardens since Roman times. Each chapter introduces the characteristic features of parks and gardens in each period and explores the social and economic context for t...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Sources
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Beginning
- 3 Medieval Gardens
- 4 Renaissance Gardens
- 5 The Age of Geometry
- 6 The Landscape Park
- 7 Nineteenth-century Gardens
- 8 Twentieth-century Gardens
- 9 Public and Institutional Parks and Gardens
- 10 The Future of Past Gardens
- Notes to Chapters
- Index