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Cover for the book: Imagined Country

Imagined Country

Environment, Culture, and Society

John Rennie Short

Paper $19.95s | 9780815629542Add to cart

Subjects: art and art history, geography, cultural studies

"Imagined Country views the environment as a social construct, defined, interpreted, and reproduced by culture and ideology . . . . The book makes its case on that issue very well."—National Geographic Research and Exploration

"Myths destroy time . . . ideologies reify space.' Through these two structures John Rennie Short examines the roles of the wilderness, the country, and the city in politics and art. . . . This is a rare achievement."—The Higher


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Series: Space, Place and Society

6 x 9, 280 pages, 75 black and white illustrations

November 2005

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