Landscapes of culture and nature /
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| Author / Creator: | Giblett, Rodney James. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. |
| Description: | xii, 205 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7885298 |
Table of Contents:
- Tables and Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Quaking Zone: Where Body, Land and Mind Meet
- Part I. Uncanny
- 2. Alligators, Crocodiles and the Monstrous Uncanny
- 3. The Nether Word of the Uncanny City of Dreadful Night
- Part II. Word War S(ub)lime
- 4. Earth and Water in the Slime of Word War I Trench Warfare
- 5. Fire and Air in the Sublime Bombing of World War II Aerial Warfare
- Coda: The Elements and the Senses in world warefare
- Part III. Photographic Sublime and Uncanny
- 6. Wilderness to Wasteland: The Sublime, the Picturesque and the Uncanny in the photography of the American West
- 7. Shooting the Sunburnt Country, the Land of Sweeping Plans, the Rugged Mountain Ranges: The Role of Australian Landscape and Wilderness Photography in Promoting Environmental Sustainability and in Forming a New National Identity
- Part IV. Mindscape
- 8. Land Health and Mental Health: A New Field for Research Nurturing Biodiversity and Well-Being on Farms
- 9. Terrifying Prospects and Resources of Hope: Minescapes, Timescapes and the Aesthetics of the Future
- Part V. Water Bodies
- 10. A Natural History of Natural, Unnatural and National Disasters
- 11. Black and White Water: Cross-Cultural Colour-Coding of the Life-Blood of the Earth-Body
- Notes
- References
- Index
