Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World /

Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World / / ed. by Stephen H. Whiteman, John Dixon Hunt.

Courts and societies across the early modern Eurasian world were fundamentally transformed by the physical, technological, and conceptual developments of their era. Evolving forms of communication, greatly expanded mobility, the spread of scientific knowledge, and the emergence of an increasingly in...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Architecture and Design 2023
MitwirkendeR:
Ali Emrani, Seyed Mohammad,
Batchelor, Robert,
Finlay, John,
Fowler, Caroline,
Grant, Katrina,
O’Kane, Finola,
Schweizer, Anton,
Silver, Larry,
Whiteman, Stephen H.,
HerausgeberIn:
Hunt, John Dixon,
Whiteman, Stephen H.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 87 halftones, 1 line art, 30 color images, 2 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Connective Landscapes: Mobilizing Space in the Transcultural Early Modern
  • PART I Circulating Discourses
  • Chapter 2. From Imperial to Confessional Landscapes: Engelbert Kaempfer and the Disenchantment of Nature in Safavid and Tokugawa Cities
  • Chapter 3. Constructing an Authentic China: Henri Bertin and Chinese Architecture in Eighteenth-Century France
  • PART II Constructing Identities
  • Chapter 4. Landscape and the Articulation of the Imperium: Safavid Isfahan
  • Chapter 5. Bridges into Metaphorical Space: Hideyoshi’s Imperial Landscapes at Osaka
  • PART III Defining Margins
  • Chapter 6. Views of Victory: The Landscapes of the Battle of the Boyne
  • Chapter 7. Delineating the Sea: Maritime Law and Painting in Willem van de Velde the Elder’s Sea-Drafts
  • Chapter 8. Dutch Representations of Southeast Asia
  • PART IV Imagining Spaces
  • Chapter 9. Landscape and Emperorship in the Connected Qing: Leng Mei’s View of Rehe
  • Chapter 10. The Princely Landscape as Stage: Early Modern Courts in Enchanted Gardens
  • Contributors
  • Index

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