TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Matthew
ED  - Wiley InterScience (Online service)
TI  - Ideas of landscape
SN  - 9780470773680
AV  - DA600 .J64 2007eb
U1  - 936.2 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Malden, MA, Oxford
PB  - Blackwell Pub.
KW  - Landscape archaeology
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Land use
KW  - History
KW  - Historical geography
KW  - Archéologie du paysage
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Sol, Utilisation du
KW  - Histoire
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Ancient
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Landskapsarkeologi
KW  - sao
KW  - Géographie historique
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-231) and index; IDEAS OF LANDSCAPE; CONTENTS; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; The Argument; Preface: Thinking about Swaledale; 1. Introduction; 2. Lonely as a Cloud; 3. A Good Pair of Boots; 4. The Loss of Innocence; 5. Landscape Archaeology Today; 6. The Politics of Landscape; 7. Conclusion; Glossary; References; Index
N2  - "Ideas of Landscape" offers an engaging discussion of the theory and practice of landscape archaeology today. Drawing on his local experience, Matthew Johnson focuses on the so-called English landscape tradition and discusses why it is so distinctive: it stands at some distance from North American and other approaches, in which "theory" plays a more prominent role. Johnson identifies the origins of this tradition in English Romanticism, through the influence of the "father of landscape history" W.G. Hoskins among others, and argues that the strengths and weaknesses of landscape archaeology can be traced back to the underlying theoretical discontents of the Romantic movement. He offers an alternative agenda, which maps more closely on to the established empirical strengths of landscape study and is more relevant both to the thrust of interdisciplinary landscape studies and to contemporary social concerns. Passionately and accessibly written, this engaging book takes up a crucial strand in archaeological thinking and examines it critically for the first time
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470773680
ER  -