Lifescapes - The Experience of Landscape in Britain, 18701960

Informationen zum Autor Jeremy Burchardt is Associate Professor in Rural History at the University of Reading. He is Principal Investigator of the Arts & Humanities Research Council research network 'Changing Landscapes, Changing Lives' and was P. H. Ditchfield Fellow at the Museum of English Rural Life, 2019–20. His previous publications include The Allotment Movement in England, 1793–1873 (2002) and Paradise Lost: Rural Idyll and Social Change Since 1800 (2002). Klappentext Why does landscape matter to us? Lifescapes develops a new approach to landscape history based on comparative biography, offering a penetrating and richly empathetic study of the relationship between individual lives and landscapes, through eight compellingly varied modern British examples. Zusammenfassung Why does landscape matter to us? Lifescapes develops a new approach to landscape history based on comparative biography, offering a penetrating and richly empathetic study of the relationship between individual lives and landscapes, through eight compellingly varied modern British examples. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; 1. Diaries, life writing and popular ruralism; Adherers; 2. Beatrix Cresswell: Exeter antiquarian; 3. William Henry Hallam: Swindon turner; Withdrawers; 4. Katherine Spear Smith: Hampshire artist; 5. Violet Dickinson: itinerant craftswoman; Restorers; 6. Dr John Johnston: Bolton doctor; 7. Bert Bissell: Dudley probation officer; Explorers; 8. Sadie Barmes: London clerk; 9. Fred Catley: Bristol bookseller; Conclusion: towards a deep history of landscape; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Burchardt, Jeremy (University of Reading) Burchardt, Burchardt Jeremy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2023
• EAN: 9781009199872
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0919987-2
• No. of pages: 518
• Series: Modern British Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Social and cultural history, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, c 1950 to c 1959, Population & demography, Population and Demography, C 1945 To C 1960