Product Description: Only in recent years has archaeology begun to examine in a coherent manner the transformation of the landscape from classical through to medieval times. In Landscapes of Change, leading scholars in the archaeology of the late antique and early medieval periods address the key results and directions of Roman rural fieldwork...read more

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Hailed as a landmark in its field since its first publication in 1984, Denis E. Cosgrove’s Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape has been influential well beyond geography. It has continued to spark lively debate among historians, geographers, art historians, social theorists, landscape architects, and others interested in the social and cultural politics of landscape. (view table of contents)

The author of The Embarrassment of Riches takes a fascinating journey through time and space to explore the rich treasury of myths that have transformed the landscape of Western culture. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. NYT.