The Invention of the Countryside
Title | The Invention of the Countryside PDF eBook |
Author | Donna Landry |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2001-08-20 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0230287573 |
Today's hunting debate began in the eighteenth century, when the idea of the countryside was being invented through the imaginative displacement of agricultural production in favour of country sports and landscape tourism. Between the Game Act of 1671 and its repeal in 1831, writers on walking and hunting often held opposed views, but contributed equally to the origins of modern ecology, while sharing a commitment to trespass that preserved common rights in an era of growing privatization.
Rural Inventions
Title | Rural Inventions PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Farmer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 189 |
Release | 2020-02-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190079096 |
At the close of the twentieth century, even as globalization spurred the growth of megacities worldwide, inhabiting the French countryside had become an internationally-shared fantasy and practice. Accounts of moving into old farmhouses were bestsellers, and houses and barns built by peasants had been renovated as second homes throughout the rural hinterland. Such developments, Sarah Farmer argues, did not simply stem from nostalgia for a rural past or a desire to invest in real estate. Rather, they defined new versions of the rural that emerge in post-agrarian societies. In post-World War II France, cutting-edge technological modernization and explosive economic growth uprooted rural populations and eroded the village traditions of a largely peasant nation. And yet, this book argues, rural France did not vanish in the sweeping transformations of the 1950s and 1960s. The French responded to the collapse of peasant society and threats to cherished landscapes by devising new ways of inhabiting the countryside, making them the sites of change and adaptation. In addition to the rise of restored peasant houses as second residences, Rural Inventions explores the utopian experiments in rural communes and in “going back to the land”; environmentalism; the extraordinary success of peasant autobiographies; photography; and other representations through which the French revalorized rural life and landscapes. The peasantry as a social class may have died out, but the countryside persisted, valued as a site not only for agriculture but increasingly for sport and leisure, tourism, social and political engagement, and a natural environment worth protecting. The postwar French state and the nation's rural and urban inhabitants, Sarah Farmer eloquently shows, remade the French countryside in relation to the city and to the world at large, not only invoking traditional France but also creating a vibrant and evolving part of the France yet to come.
The Illustrated History of the Countryside
Title | The Illustrated History of the Countryside PDF eBook |
Author | Oliver Rackham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 1994 |
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Rural Inventions
Title | Rural Inventions PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Bennett Farmer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | France |
ISBN | 9780190079109 |
"In post-World War II France, commitment to cutting-edge technological modernization and explosive economic growth uprooted rural populations and eroded the village traditions of a largely peasant nation. And yet, this book argues, rural France did not vanish in the sweeping transformations of the 1950s and 1960s. The attachment of the French to rural ways and the agricultural past became a widely-shared preoccupation in the 1970s; this, in turn, became an engine of change in its own right. Though the French countryside is often imagined as stable and enduring, this book presents it as a site not just of decline and loss but also of change and adaptation. Rural Inventions explores the rise of restored peasant houses as second residences; utopian experiments in rural communes and in going back to the land; environmentalism; the literary success of peasant autobiographies; photography; and other representations through which the French revalorized rural life and landscapes. The peasantry as a social class may have died out, but the countryside persisted, valued as a site not only for agriculture but increasingly for sport and leisure, tourism, and social and political engagement; a place to dwell part-time as well as full-time; and a natural environment worth protecting. The postwar French state and the nation's rural and urban inhabitants remade the French countryside in relation to the city and to the world at large, not only invoking traditional France but also creating a vibrant and evolving part of the France yet to come"--
Lifescapes
Title | Lifescapes PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Burchardt |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 523 |
Release | 2023-04-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1009199870 |
A compelling study of the influences that shape our responses to landscape, through eight modern British lives.
Creating The Countryside
Title | Creating The Countryside PDF eBook |
Author | Melanie Dupuis |
Publisher | Temple University Press |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781439901458 |
People active in regional environmental crises discuss the destruction, conservation, and creation of the countryside.
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Pages | 156 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Criticism |
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