Technologies of landscape : from reaping to recycling /
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Imprint: | Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1999. |
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Description: | ix, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4253414 |
Summary: | The essays in this volume examine how the tensions between culture and nature is more apparent than real. Even in preindustrial societies, where the dominant technologies are agricultural, it would be impossible to envision a landscape unshaped by human contact. |
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Item Description: | "Emerged from a conference 'Landscape and technology,' held at Odense University in Denmark in January 1997"--P. |
Physical Description: | ix, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 1558492283 1558492291 |