Kategoria BISAC: History >> Social History

Landscape architecture and garden-making have witnessed huge changes during the twentieth-century, and the impact of these will continue to be discussed and interpreted in the twenty-first.

New materials and responses to different social conditions, along with new attitudes to how gardens are perceived and interpreted and above all the relationship of built work to the larger landscape of territory and society - all have challenged long-held practices of garden-making, even while those same traditions continue to be at the centre of both designers and users.

The Enlightenment raised fundamental questions about what it meant to be human in a truly global world. At the heart of debates about nature, culture and history, the garden offered itself as a practical demonstration, a living experiment, and a site of debate and discourse.

The design, planting, experience and representation of contemporary gardens in Europe, China and North America reveal intense contributions to debates on aesthetics, both personal and national politics, and on the shaping of nature.

The history of the garden in the Renaissance, traced from the late fourteenth century in Italy to the death of Andre Le Notre in 1700 in France, is a story both of dynamism and codification. The period saw the emergence of what would become archetypal elements of the formal garden and the fixing of theory and language of the garden arts.

At the same time, newly important sciences, developments in engineering, as well as globalization, historicity, and theories of aesthetics were embraced in the construction of such gardens. The result was the notion of the landscape as something to...

The Middle Ages was a time of great upheaval - the period between the seventh and fourteenth centuries saw great social, political and economic change. The radically distinct cultures of the Christian West, Byzantium, Persian-influenced Islam, and al-Andalus resulted in different responses to the garden arts of antiquity and different attitudes to the natural world and its artful manipulation. Yet these cultures interacted and communicated, trading plants, myths and texts. By the fifteenth century the garden as a cultural phenomenon was immensely sophisticated and a vital element in the...

The history of gardens in antiquity is characterized by a rich mix of cultures interacting throughout Europe, Africa and Asia. This period - from the sixth century BCE to the sixth century CE - was foundational to the later periods of garden history. The emergence of advanced horticultural techniques, sustained regional and international trade routes, and centralized power structures promoted the development of highly sophisticated garden culture in both private and public contexts.

New evidence derived from archaeology and fresh analysis of literary and visual sources revises our...

The past 20 years have witnessed a turn towards the sensuous, particularly the aural, as a viable space for critical exploration in History and other Humanities disciplines. This has been informed by a heightened awareness of the role that the senses play in shaping modern identity and understanding of place; and increasingly, how the senses are central to the memory of past experiences and their representation. The result has been a broadening of our historical imagination, which has previously taken the visual for granted and ignored the other senses. Considering how crucial the auditory...

Social movements have shaped and are shaping modern societies around the globe; this is evident when we look at examples such as the Arab Spring, Spain's Indignados and the wider Occupy movement. In this volume, experts analyse the 'classic' and new social movements from a uniquely global perspective and offer insights in current theoretical discussions on social mobilisation. Chapters are devoted both to the study of continental developments of social movements going back to the nineteenth century and ranging to the present day, and to an emphasis on the transnational dimension of these...

Wie vielgestaltig das Leben und Werk Daniel Chodowieckis war, wird deutlich, wenn man sich die Berufe vor Augen fuhrt, die er ausgeubt hat: Er war Dekorateur, Maler, Illustrator, Kupferstecher, Handwerker, Unternehmer, Kunstsachverstandiger. Diese Fulle gibt vor allem den Kunsthistorikern und Literaturhistorikern unter den historischen Geisteswissenschaftlern die Legitimation, sich aus verschiedenen Perspektiven mit Chodowiecki zu beschaftigen. Denn er hat offenbar ein 'interdisziplinares Leben' gefuhrt und verdient es, da dieses - wie es in der Publikation geschieht - auch einmal...

Diese Sammlung von reflektierten Fallstudien prasentiert ein Tableau der formellen wie der informellen Formen der Geselligkeit in Nordwestdeutschland in der zweiten Halfte des 18. Jahrhunderts. Sie thematisiert nicht allein die unterschiedlichen Formen aufklarerischer Geselligkeit - von der Lesegesellschaft bis zur geheimen Gesellschaft bzw. von musikalischen Gesellschaften bis hin zu den Freundschaften, Bunden usw. --, sondern auch die gleichzeitigen Formen der Geselligkeit unterschiedlicher sozialer Schichten und ihre Interaktionsformen. In der Konzentration auf die Gleichzeitigkeit...

Der Band enthalt die Beitrage einer interdisziplinaren Tagung, die anlalich des 200. Todestages von Johann Peter Uz in Ansbach stattfand. Das Interesse galt sowohl den relevanten philosophischen und theologischen Grundlagen der anakreontischen und philosophischen Dichtung Uzens als auch den in ihr wirksam gewordenen literarischen Traditionen so gut wie den ereignis- und sozialgeschichtlichen Kontexten. An einem reprasentativen Beispiel der Dichtungsgeschichte des 18. Jahrhunderts konnte so die Konstanz der Aufklarung hallescher Pragung "in der Provinz" uber die Jahrhundertmitte hinaus...

When the University of Halle-Wittenberg founded the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research into the European Enlightenment in 1993, it was following the destiny of its history as a centre of the Early Enlightenment in Germany which affected the whole of Europe and as one of the moving forces behind the Anthropological Turn. Research foci of the Centre have been and are Enlightenment anthropology, Enlightenment in the reference field of early modem esotericism, university history, philanthropism and the Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Worlitz; more recent emphasis has been on the Early...

The Archiv fur Geschichte des Buchwesens contains academic articles and source editions, and covers all subjects connected with books and their history. On the long road from "author to reader," as Herbert G. Gopfert phrases it, lie a series of thematic stages such as those of the author (with his or her social background), book design, forms of production and marketing, collection in libraries and reader circles. The history of books does not stand for itself, but is a part of social development as a whole, of the political, intellectual and economic situation. It opens...

The Archiv fur Geschichte des Buchwesens contains academic articles and source editions, and covers all subjects connected with books and their history. On the long road from "author to reader," as Herbert G. Gopfert phrases it, lie a series of thematic stages such as those of the author (with his or her social background), book design, forms of production and marketing, collection in libraries and reader circles. The history of books does not stand for itself, but is a part of social development as a whole, of the political, intellectual and economic situation. It opens...