Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape (Irish cultural studies) - Hardcover

 
9781859180952: Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape (Irish cultural studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1859180957 ISBN 13: 9781859180952
Publisher: Cork University Press, 1997

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352pp, inc. many b/w & coloured illus, cloth, jacket, 30x24cm

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Review

"Chosen as one of the Times Literary Supplement's (1997) International Books of the Year" 'Lavish in form and erudite in content. There are sections on bogs and demesnes, fields and villages, mining and the destruction of antiquities. The Irish landscape, now in places under grave ecological threat, has always been a visual palimpsest of the country's turbulent history, a text to be deciphered as much as to be savoured. This beautifully illustrated essay interweaves geology, archaeology, demography, social history and a host of other disciplines, moving from tourism to the rural poor, peat to parks, vernacular rural architecture to landscape management. It demonstrates the point that, rather like literary studies, there is almost nothing that geography isn't about; but after productions as ambitious as this, literary studies had better look to its laurels.'--Terry Eagleton "Times Literary Supplement "

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Publisher
Cork University Press
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1859180957
ISBN 13 
9781859180952
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
352
Editor
Aalen F.H.A., Whelan Kevin

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