A Short History of Gardens
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A Short History of Gardens embraces the beauty and practicality of gardens, in history and culture across the world. Gordon Campbell also look at variations on the modern garden, including the suburban garden, the city garden, the guerrilla garden, and the vegetable garden, and c... read full description below.
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| Interest Age |
General Audience |
| Reading Age |
General Audience |
| Library of Congress |
Gardening - History, Gardens - History |
| NBS Text |
Gardening |
| ONIX Text |
General/trade |
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| Dewey Code |
635.09 |
| Catalogue Code |
655572 |
Description of this Book
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 different regions and traditions. Ranging from the gardens of ancient Persia to modern day allotments, he concludes by looking to the future of the garden in the age of global warming, and the adaptive spirit of human innovation.
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Awards, Reviews & Star Ratings
| NZ Review |
Campbell's text is a deft combination of scholarship with affectionate and informed first-hand experience of gardens visited in seventy countries on every continent. For a history of nine short chapters the scope is breathtaking from the Ancient to the Future, and from Egypt to Australia, taking in East Asia, America, Africa and Europe on the way. This is not so much a whistle-stop tour of the great garden sites of the world, but more a brilliantly condensed cultural history literary, philosophical, religious, horticultural, artistic of gardens that have inspired mankind throughout the ages and continue to engage us as living creations in constant flux. Timothy Mowl, Emeritus Professor of History of Architecture and Designed Landscapes, University of Bristol |
| UK Review |
Bertrams Star Rating: 3 stars (out of 5) |
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Author's Bio
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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