Research Catalog

Title

• British gardens : history, philosophy and design / Tom Turner.

Author

Turner, Tom (Thomas Henry Duke), 1946-

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

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Details

Description

x, 456 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps, plans; cm.

Summary

"Garden designbegan in West Asia and spread throughout Europe. This book tells how, in the British Isles, it flourished to an extraordinary degree ..."--Book jacket.

Subject

• Gardens > Great Britain > Design
• Gardens > Great Britain > History
• Gardens, British > Design
• Gardens, British > History
• Landscape architecture > Great Britain > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prehistoric landscapes and gardening, 3500 BCE-43 CE -- Romano-British gardens and landscapes, 43-1066 -- Medieval gardens and landscapes, 1066-1485 -- Renaissance gardens, 1485-1660 -- Baroque gardens and landscapes, 1660-1750 -- Neoclassical gardens and landscapes, 1730-1794 -- Romantic gardens and landscapes, 1794-1880 -- Arts and crafts gardens, 1880-1970 -- Abstract modern gardens, 1925-1980 -- Post-abstract and sustainable gardens, post-1980 -- Appendix I. Garden and landscape design : Asia, Europe and the British Isles -- Appendix II. Names for styles and periods -- Appendix III. Wollaton Hall, Gardens and Deerk Park, Nottingham, England / Michael Simonsen.

ISBN

• 9780415518789 (hb : alk. paper)
• 0415518784 (hb : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012010621

OCLC

774498726

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library