A Short History of Gardens

Gordon Campbell (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2016
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-878461-6 (ISBN)

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A Short History of Gardens embraces the beauty and practicality of gardens, in history and culture across the world. Gordon Campbell also look at variations on the modern garden, including the suburban garden, the city garden, the guerrilla garden, and the vegetable garden, and considers the future of gardens.

Gardens take many forms, and have a variety of functions. They can serve as spaces of peace and tranquilty, a way to cultivate wildlife, or as places to develop agricultural resources. Globally, gardens have inspired, comforted, and sustained people from all walks of life, and since the Garden of Eden many iconic gardens have inspired great artists, poets, musicians, and writers.

In this short history, Gordon Campbell embraces gardens in all their splendour, from parks, and fruit and vegetable gardens to ornamental gardens, and takes the reader on a globe-trotting historical journey through iconic and cultural signposts of gardens from different regions and traditions. Ranging from the gardens of ancient Persia to modern day allotments, he concludes by looking to the future of the garden in the age of global warming, and the adaptive spirit of human innovation.

Gordon Campbell is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Leicester, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. In January 2012 he was presented with the Longman History Today Trustees Award (for lifetime contribution to history). He has authored and edited many books for OUP including The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance (2003); Renaissance Art and Architecture (2004); John Milton: Life, Work and Thought (2008; co-author); Bible: the Story of the King James Version, 1611-2011 (2010); and The Hermit in the Garden: from Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome (2013).

Introduction
1: The Ancient and Medieval Garden
2: The Islamic Garden
3: The East Asian Garden
4: Italy
5: France
6: Spain and Portugal
7: Northern Europe
8: Britain
9: America, Africa, and Australia
Postscript: The Future History of the Garden
Glossary
Further Reading
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.10.2016
Zusatzinfo	10 colour plates and 25 black and white images
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	134 x 176 mm
Gewicht	310 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	0-19-878461-9 / 0198784619
ISBN-13	978-0-19-878461-6 / 9780198784616
Zustand	Neuware