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Author | : Thomas J. Mickey |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2013-04-17 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 0821444522 |
Named one of “the year’s best gardening books” by The Spectator (UK, Nov. 2014) The 1890s saw a revolution in advertising. Cheap paper, faster printing, rural mail delivery, railroad shipping, and chromolithography combined to pave the way for the first modern, mass-produced catalogs. The most prominent of these, reaching American households by the thousands, were seed and nursery catalogs with beautiful pictures of middle-class homes surrounded by sprawling lawns, exotic plants, and the latest garden accessories—in other words, the quintessential English-style garden. America’s Romance with the English Garden is the story of tastemakers and homemakers, of savvy businessmen and a growing American middle class eager to buy their products. It’s also the story of the beginnings of the modern garden industry, which seduced the masses with its images and fixed the English garden in the mind of the American consumer. Seed and nursery catalogs delivered aspirational images to front doorsteps from California to Maine, and the English garden became the look of America.
Author | : Jennifer Wren Atkinson |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2018-08-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0820353191 |
In exploring the hidden landscape of desire in American gardens, Gardenland examines literary fiction, horticultural publications, and environmental writing, including works by Charles Dudley Warner, Henry David Thoreau, Willa Cather, Jamaica Kincaid, John McPhee, and Leslie Marmon Silko.
Author | : Andrew Eburne |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2016-04-21 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 1448147484 |
Richard Taylor, author of the best-selling How to Read a Church, joins forces with garden historian Andrew Eburne to produce the ultimate guide to historic and modern gardens. Gardens are amongst the fastest-growing visitor attractions today - in the UK alone 15 million people will visit a garden this year. How to Read an English Garden is the essential book for every garden lover. It provides an account of the different elements of gardens of all ages and explains their meaning and their history: here, you'll find the answer to such questions as: when were tulips introduced into our gardens, and what was 'tulip-mania'? What is a knot-garden, and what was the origin of its design? Who was 'Capability' Brown, and how did he get his name? Why are mazes such a common feature in English garden design? In addition, the book explains how lawns, flowerbeds, trees and ponds came to be a feature not just of grand houses but of gardens everywhere. Among the many subjects covered are: garden design, plant introductions and collectors, kitchen gardens, water gardens, and garden styles from around the world: English, American, Chinese and Moorish to name just a few. Clearly laid out and beautifully illustrated, How to Read an English Garden brings historic and modern gardens to life: a book to accompany garden visitors everywhere, or to be enjoyed and dipped into at home.
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Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : America |
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 639 |
Release | : 2024-01-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004691138 |
What is center and periphery? How can centers and peripheries be recognized by their ontological and axiological features? How does the axiological saturation of a literary field condition aesthetics? How did these factors transform center-periphery relationships to the former metropolises of Romance literatures of the Americas and Africa? What are the consequences of various deperipheralization contexts and processes for poetics? Using theoretical sections and case studies, this book surveys and investigates the limits of globalization. Through explorations of the intercultural dynamics, the aesthetic contributions of former peripheries are examined in terms of the transformative nature of peripheries on centralities.
Author | : Sara Sartagne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2020-09-16 |
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Ella Sanderson manages the farms and estate at Ashton Manor. She's an old-fashioned girl who knows what she likes. And she hates the ultra-modern garden designed by horticulture's bad boy, Connor McPherson which will destroy the place that brought her solace and potentially empty the estate's coffers.Plus, Connor is just the type she's learned to mistrust. Bright blue eyes and Irish charm may have captivated her employer Lady Susan--but not her! Ella can't overrule Lady Susan's wishes for the garden, but she can just... not help.Connor McPherson didn't want the commission, but as the garden will host his best friend's wedding, he couldn't refuse it. If the wettest English weather on record hasn't completely blown his chances of completing the build for the big day, he's also battling the snooty estate manager who couldn't be less enthusiastic.When mounting problems force them to work together, the stage is set for fireworks between the hot-tempered Irishman and the cool, contained estate manager. But Connor starts to realise that beneath her buttoned-up exterior, Ella has a passion equal to his own and a secret she's hidden for years.As Ella fights to get the garden she hates built in time for the wedding she'd rather not attend and safeguard the manor from unwelcome publicity, she's increasingly drawn to the tempestuous designer. Who, she discovers, has his own secrets to protect...Meet old friends from The Garden Plot in the next in the series of the English Garden Romance series. Fans of Jill Mansell and Katie Fforde will enjoy this HEA romance with a hint of spice!
Author | : Michael Murrin |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2013-12-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 022607160X |
In Trade and Romance, Michael Murrin examines the complex relations between the expansion of trade in Asia and the production of heroic romance in Europe from the second half of the thirteenth century through the late seventeenth century. He shows how these tales of romance, ostensibly meant for the aristocracy, were important to the growing mercantile class as a way to gauge their own experiences in traveling to and trading in these exotic locales. Murrin also looks at the role that growing knowledge of geography played in the writing of the creative literature of the period, tracking how accurate, or inaccurate, these writers were in depicting far-flung destinations, from Iran and the Caspian Sea all the way to the Pacific. With reference to an impressive range of major works in several languages—including the works of Marco Polo, Geoffrey Chaucer, Matteo Maria Boiardo, Luís de Camões, Fernão Mendes Pinto, Edmund Spenser, John Milton, and more—Murrin tracks numerous accounts by traders and merchants through the literature, first on the Silk Road, beginning in the mid-thirteenth century; then on the water route to India, Japan, and China via the Cape of Good Hope; and, finally, the overland route through Siberia to Beijing. All of these routes, originally used to exchange commodities, quickly became paths to knowledge as well, enabling information to pass, if sometimes vaguely and intermittently, between Europe and the Far East. These new tales of distant shores fired the imagination of Europe and made their way, with surprising accuracy, as Murrin shows, into the poetry of the period.
Author | : Bill Marshall |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 1334 |
Release | : 2005-05-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1851094164 |
A unique, multidisciplinary encyclopedia covering the impacts that French and American politics, foreign policy, and culture have had on shaping each country's identity. From 17th-century fur traders in Canada to 21st-century peacekeepers in Haiti, from France's decisive role in the Revolutionary War leading to the creation of the United States to recent disagreements over Iraq, France and the Americas charts the history of the inextricable links between France and the nations of the Americas. This comprehensive survey features an incisive introduction and a chronology of key events, spanning 400 years of France's transatlantic relations. Students of many disciplines, as well as the lay reader, will appreciate this comprehensive survey, which traces the common themes of both French policy, language, and influence throughout the Americas and the wide-ranging transatlantic influences on contemporary France.
Author | : Marsha Ackermann |
Publisher | : Smithsonian Institution |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2013-08-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1588344010 |
The year 2002 marked the 100th anniversary of the first installation of air-conditioning. During the past century, it has become a staple of American life; 83% of US homes are now air-conditioned. In this engaging social history, Marsha Ackermann explores how the idea of “cooling” became firmly embedded in the social perceptions and expectations of Americans, transforming our definition of comfort and the way we live, work, and play.
Author | : Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
Publisher | : Copyright Office, Library of Congress |
Total Pages | : 1300 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : Copyright |
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Includes Part 1A: Books and Part 1B: Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals