Garden history : issues, approaches, methods

Book

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Historic Charleston Foundation

Name/Title

Garden history : issues, approaches, methods

Entry/Object ID

2008.002.0110

Secondary Title

Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture

Description

Papers presented at the Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture in May 1989. Discusses the wider implications of the study of gardens within such contexts as botanical, horticultural, agrarian, literary, technological, social, culture, political, and art history, within a large historical and geographical range. Themes include the values of archaeology to garden history and conservation; the different or even rival uses of literature, painting, archival and other documentation; geographical understanding of territory; and the rich resources of gardens for historical study and the importance of landscape architectural history in its own right as a major contributor to humanistic knowledge. 402 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Library

Acquisition

Accession

2008.002.

Source or Donor

New Library Catalog Records (2008)

Acquisition Method

Found in Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Gardens--History--Congresses, Gardens--Historiography--Congresses, Landscape architecture--History--Congresses, Landscape architecture--Historiography--Congresses

Book Details

Author

Hunt, John Dixon

Publisher

Dumbarton Oaks

Place Published

Location

Washington, DC

Date Published

1992

Call No.

SB451 .D85 1992

ISBN

0884021971

LCCN

91023299

Notes

Copy No.: 0

Location

Location

Building

Missroon Library

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

General Notes

Note

Notes: "Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, 13 edited by John Dixon Hunt"--Leaf preceding t.p. "Revised texts of papers read at the symposium held in May 1989"--Foreword Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Create Date

June 19, 2008

Updated By

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Update Date

April 5, 2023