Imagined Country: Environment, Culture, and Society

by John Short

Overview

This volume explores the relationship between siciety and the physical world through representation - the artistic re-creation of the physical world - which reflects interpretation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815629542
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Publication date:	11/15/2005
Series:	Space, Place and Society
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.73(d)

About the Author

John Rennie Short is professor of geography at Syracuse University. He is the author New Worlds, New Geographies also published by Syracuse University Press.

Editorial Reviews

Myths destroy time . . . ideologies reify space.' Through these two structures John Rennie Short examines the roles of the wilderness, the country, and the city in politics and art. . . . This is a rare achievement.

The Higher

Imagined Country views the environment as a social construct, defined, interpreted, and reproduced by culture and ideology . . . . The book makes its case on that issue very well.

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