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Title
  • Gardens and cultural change : a Pan-American perspective / edited by Michel Conan and Jeffrey Quilter.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection ; [Cambridge, Mass.] : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Benoît, Catherine.
  • Berjman, Sonia, 1946-
  • Conan, Michel
  • Conan, Michel.
  • Dumbarton Oaks
  • Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium in Garden History (2003 : Washington, D.C.)
  • Quilter, Jeffrey, 1949-
  • Schávelzon, Daniel.
Description
110 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.), plans; 27 cm.
Summary
"Gardens contain time, culture, and nature. They are powerful symbolic spaces in which a society may project its ideals, to conjure or contrive cultural changes by rooting them in the flow of natural processes. Five authors explore the variety of relationships between garden making and cultural changes in Argentine, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States. They show how gardens have been expressive of popular cultural inventions, but could also be attempts at political manipulations, and sometimes place of cultural resistance by subjugated people. Issues of identity and ideology, political coercion and resistance apply equally throughout the continent, inviting a renewed attention to gardens as places where cultural identities are forged and contested. The authors engage in different approaches and conflicting interpretations, revealing the existence of debates and issues among scholars at a remove from the supposed divide between English and Spanish cultures."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Gardens > History > America > Congresses
  • Gardens > Symbolic aspects > America > Congresses
  • Geschichte
  • Geschichte 1700-1800
  • Geschichte 1800-1900
  • Geschichte
  • Park, ..
Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings
Note
  • "Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium in Garden History, held at Dumbarton Oaks, October 24-26, 2003"--P. facing t.p.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Gardens and the construction of cultures in the Americas / Michel Conan and Jeffrey Quilter -- The Chinampas of the valley of Mexico / Saúl Alcántara Onofre -- Gardens in the African diaspora : forging a Creole identity in the Caribbean and the U.S. / Catherine Benoît -- An ideological-aesthetic approach to Buenos Aires public parks and plazas / Sonia Berjman -- Parks and democracy in a growing city : Palermo, Buenos Aires / Daniel Schavelzon -- The small parks in New York City and the civilizing process of immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century / Rachel Iannacone.
ISBN
  • 9780884023302
  • 0884023303
LCCN
^^2007038456
OCLC
173367758
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library