Architecture and Nature: Creating the American Landscape

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Architecture and Nature: Creating the American Landscape by Bonnemaison,Sarah, 9780415283595
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  • ISBN: 9780415283595 | 0415283590
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  • Copyright: 4/11/2003

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The word "nature" comes from natura, Latin for birth - as do the words nation, native and innate. But nature and nation share more than a common root, they share a common history where one term has been used to define the other. In the United States, the relationship between nation and nature has been central to its colonial and post-colonial history, from the idea of the noble savage to the myth of the frontier. Narrated, painted and filmed, American landscapes have been central to the construction of a national identity. This book offers an in-depth look at how changing ideas of what nature is and what it means for the country have been represented in buildings and landscapes over the past century.
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