Reading Rural Landscapes

Reading Rural Landscapes
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 179
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ISBN-10 : 9781684751563
ISBN-13 : 168475156X
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Reading Rural Landscapes by : Robert Stanford

Download or read book Reading Rural Landscapes written by Robert Stanford and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everywhere we go in rural New England, the past surrounds us. In the woods and fields and along country roads, the traces are everywhere if we know what to look for and how to interpret what we see. A patch of neglected daylilies marks a long-abandoned homestead. A grown-over cellar hole with nearby stumps and remnants of stone wall and orchard shows us where a farm has been reclaimed by forest. And a piece of a stone dam and wooden sluice mark the site of a long-gone mill. Although slumping back into the landscape, these features speak to us if we can hear them and they can guide us to ancestral homesteads and famous sites. Lavishly illustrated with drawings and color photos.Provides the keys to interpret human artifacts in fields, woods, and roadsides and to reconstruct the past from surviving clues.Perfect to carry in a backpack or glove box.A unique and valuable resource for road trips, genealogical research, naturalists, and historians.

Poquosin

Poquosin
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 0807845272
ISBN-13 : 9780807845271
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Poquosin by : Jack Temple Kirby

Download or read book Poquosin written by Jack Temple Kirby and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Temple Kirby charts the history of the low country between the James River in Virginia and Albemarle Sound in North Carolina. The Algonquian word for this country, which means 'swamp-on-a-hill,' was transliterated as 'poquosin' by seventeenth-century

Reading Rural Landscapes

Reading Rural Landscapes
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0884483665
ISBN-13 : 9780884483663
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Reading Rural Landscapes by : Robert Sanford

Download or read book Reading Rural Landscapes written by Robert Sanford and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ghostly orchards to tumbledown stone walls, every feature of the rural landscape tells a story. Here, a renowned environmental scientist takes readers on a tour and teaches them how to glean from these signs a forgotten history.

Reading the Forested Landscape

Reading the Forested Landscape
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Publisher : Nature
Total Pages : 199
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ISBN-10 : 0881504203
ISBN-13 : 9780881504200
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Reading the Forested Landscape by : Tom Wessels

Download or read book Reading the Forested Landscape written by Tom Wessels and published by Nature. This book was released on 1999 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the forest in New England from the Ice Age to current challenges

Managing the Historic Rural Landscape

Managing the Historic Rural Landscape
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 196
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ISBN-10 : 9781317798118
ISBN-13 : 1317798112
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Managing the Historic Rural Landscape by : Jane Grenville

Download or read book Managing the Historic Rural Landscape written by Jane Grenville and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999. The Issues in Heritage Management series is a joint venture between Routledge and English Heritage. It provides accessible, thought-provoking books on issues central to heritage management. Each book within the series is designed to provide a topical introduction to a key issue in heritage management for students in higher education and for heritage professionals. Rapid changes are taking place in countryside management today, making their impact on the historic landscape. In an accessible format, this volume examines the questions and conflicts that arise in Managing the Historic Rural Landscape. It is essential reading for students and professionals concerned with countryside management, in particular those involved with cultural landscapes and students of planning.

Making the San Fernando Valley

Making the San Fernando Valley
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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 9780820337579
ISBN-13 : 0820337579
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Making the San Fernando Valley by : Laura R. Barraclough

Download or read book Making the San Fernando Valley written by Laura R. Barraclough and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book-length scholarly study of the San Fernando Valley--home to one-third of the population of Los Angeles--Laura R. Barraclough combines ambitious historical sweep with an on-theground investigation of contemporary life in this iconic western suburb. She is particularly intrigued by the Valley's many rural elements, such as dirt roads, tack-and-feed stores, horse-keeping districts, citrus groves, and movie ranches. Far from natural or undeveloped spaces, these rural characteristics are, she shows, the result of deliberate urbanplanning decisions that have shaped the Valley over the course of more than a hundred years. The Valley's entwined history of urban development and rural preservation has real ramifications today for patterns of racial and class inequality and especially for the evolving meaning of whiteness. Immersing herself in meetings of homeowners' associations, equestrian organizations, and redistricting committees, Barraclough uncovers the racial biases embedded in rhetoric about "open space" and "western heritage." The Valley's urban cowboys enjoy exclusive, semirural landscapes alongside the opportunities afforded by one of the world's largest cities. Despite this enviable position, they have at their disposal powerful articulations of both white victimization and, with little contradiction, color-blind politics.

Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape

Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 375
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ISBN-10 : 9780802042941
ISBN-13 : 0802042945
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape by : F. H. A. Aalen

Download or read book Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape written by F. H. A. Aalen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lush and green, the beauty of Ireland's landscape is legendary. "The Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape" has harnessed the expertise of dozens of specialists to produce an exciting and pioneering study which aims to increase understanding and appreciation for the landscape as an important element of Irish national heritage, and to provide a much needed basis for an understanding of landscape conservation and planning. Essentially cartographic in approach, the Atlas is supplemented by diagrams, photographs, paintings, and explanatory text. Regional case studies, covering the whole of Ireland from north to south, are included, along with historical background. The impact of human civilization upon Ireland's geography and environment is well documented, and the contributors to the Atlas deal with contemporary changes in the landscape resulting from developments in Irish agriculture, forestry, bog exploitation, tourism, housing, urban expansion, and other forces. "The Atlas of the Rural Irish Landscape" is a book which aims to educate and inform the general reader and student about the relationship between human activity and the landscape. It is a richly illustrated, beautifully written, and immensely authoritative work that will be the guide to Ireland's geography for many years to come.