People have always attached meaning to the landscape that surrounds them. This exploration of modern Englishness shows how it is not just linked to the usual pastoral idyll of chocolate-box thatched cottages and waving fields of corn, but is found in diverse locations - urban and rural, and north and south.
People have always attached meaning to the landscape that surrounds them. This exploration of modern Englishness shows how it is not just linked to the usual pastoral idyll of chocolate-box thatched cottages and waving fields of corn, but is found in diverse locations - urban and rural, and north and south.
Paul Readman is Professor of Modern British History at King's College London. He is author of Land and Nation: Patriotism, National Identity and the Politics of Land (2008). His other publications include, as co-editor, The Land Question in Britain (2010), Borderlands in World History, 1700-1914 (2014) and Walking Histories, 1800-1914 (2016), as well as many articles and essays. As a keen walker and perpetual tourist, he has a long-standing interest in the diverse ways that human experience shapes, and is shaped by, landscape and place.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part I. Borders: 1. The cliffs of Dover 2. The Northumbrian borderland Part II. Preservation: 3. The Lake District 4. The New Forest Part III. Beyond the South Country: 5. Manchester: shock landscape? 6. The Thames Conclusion.
Introduction Part I. Borders: 1. The cliffs of Dover 2. The Northumbrian borderland Part II. Preservation: 3. The Lake District 4. The New Forest Part III. Beyond the South Country: 5. Manchester: shock landscape? 6. The Thames Conclusion.
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