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Gordon Campbell

A Short History of Gardens

A Short History

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Gardens take many forms, and have a variety of functions. They can serve as spaces of peace and tranquilty, a way to cultivate wildlife, or as places to develop agricultural resources. Globally, gardens have inspired, comforted, and sustained people from all walks of life, and since the Garden of Eden many iconic gardens have inspired great artists, poets, musicians, and writers.In this short history, Gordon Campbell embraces gardens in all their splendour, from parks, and fruit and vegetable gardens to ornamental gardens, and takes the reader on a globe-trotting historical journey through iconic and cultural signposts of gardens from differ… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-108754-7
  • EAN: 9780191087547
  • Produktnummer: 29057294
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 144 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 184'252 KB

Über den Autor


Gordon Campbell is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Leicester, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. In January 2012 he was presented with the Longman History Today Trustees Award (for lifetime contribution to history). He has authored and edited many books for OUP including The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance (2003); Renaissance Art and Architecture (2004); John Milton: Life, Work and Thought (2008; co-author);Bible: the Story of the King James Version, 1611-2011 (2010); and The Hermit in the Garden: from Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome (2013).

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