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The landscape of man : shaping the environment from prehistory to the present day / Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe.

Title
The landscape of man : shaping the environment from prehistory to the present day / Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe.
Author
Jellicoe, Geoffrey, 1900-1996
Publication
New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, 1995.

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Additional Authors
Jellicoe, Susan
Description
408 pages : illustrations; 29 cm
Subject
  • Landscape architecture > History
  • Nature > Effect of human beings on > History
  • Landscape architecture > History > Pictorial works
  • Nature > Effect of human beings on > History > Pictorial works
  • Architecture du paysage > Histoire
  • Homme > Influence sur la nature > Histoire
  • Architecture du paysage > Histoire > Ouvrages illustrés
  • Homme > Influence sur la nature > Histoire > Ouvrages illustrés
  • Landscape architecture
  • Nature > Effect of human beings on
  • Arquitetura paisagistica
  • Landscape design History
Genre/Form
  • illustrated books.
  • Illustrated works
  • History
  • Pictorial works
  • Ouvrages illustrés.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-404) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Landscape and Civilization -- 1. Origins -- 2. Western Asia to the Muslim Conquest -- 3. Islam: Western Asia -- 4. The Western Expansion of Islam: Spain -- 5. The Eastern Expansion of Islam: Mughul India -- 6. Ancient India -- 7. China -- 8. Japan -- 9. Pre-Columbian America -- 10. Egypt -- 11. Greece -- 12. The Roman Empire -- 13. The Middle Ages in Europe -- 14. Italy: The Renaissance -- 15. Italy: Mannerism and Baroque -- 16. France: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- 17. Spain, Germany, England, The Netherlands: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- 18. Western Classicism -- 19. The Chinese School -- 20. The English School -- 21. The European Mainland -- 22. The British Isles -- 23. United States of America -- 24. Europe -- 25. The Americas -- 26. The Western Hemisphere: The New World -- 27. The Eastern Hemisphere: The Old World -- 28. World Trends in Landscape Design -- Epilogue: Towards the Landscape of Humanism.
ISBN
  • 0500278199
  • 9780500278192
LCCN
94061111
OCLC
  • 33208537
  • SCSB-12085447
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library