The English Love Affair With Nature
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The English Love Affair With Nature
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Author : Ian Alexander
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-03-14
The English Love Affair With Nature written by Ian Alexander and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-14 with categories.
We English, supposedly cold and unemotional, are helplessly in love with nature. We fell in love two hundred years ago and, since then, have been on a wild roller-coaster ride through escapism, romanticism, art, animal cruelty, conservation, birdwatching, the back-to-nature movement and much more. Today we live with pets, gardening, wildlife documentaries and smartphone apps. The English Love Affair with Nature tells the story of this extraordinarily long, tangled and passionate romance, how we fell in love, and why we are still mad about nature.
A Love Affair With Nature
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Author : Edwin Mullins
language : en
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Release Date : 1985
A Love Affair With Nature written by Edwin Mullins and has been published by Phaidon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Art categories.
In this book Edwin Mullins examines this very British affection in detail: he looks at the great tradition of English landscape painting and demonstrates how the inspiration of nature is reflected in the way the English use the land, in the creation of the small garden, and, on a larger scale, in the landscaped slopes of parkland surrounding the English country house.
Changing Times
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Author : Martin Chick
language : en
Publisher: An Economic and Social History of Britain
Release Date : 2020-01-15
Changing Times written by Martin Chick and has been published by An Economic and Social History of Britain this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-15 with Great Britain categories.
This is a study of how, and why, the British economy has changed since 1951. It covers the Golden Age of 1945-1973 when unemployment was below one million; when governments built millions of council houses and flats; when electricity, telephones, and gas were supplied by nationalised monopolies; when income and wealth inequality were narrowing; and when the UK was not a member of the European Economic Community. Moving through the inflation, rising unemployment, and rapid contraction of the manufacturing industry from the mid- 1970s, Changing Times examines the transfer of assets which was effected in the privatisation of public housing and nationalised industries from the early 1980s. The role of the State changed as public investment fell. The financing of old-age care, of state pensions, and of the National Health Service became of increasing concern and were less politically amenable to the approach of using private finance (the Private Finance Initiative and tuition fees) to fund former public obligations. Changes were made to the system of taxation, but public expenditure changed little as a share of national income, although the government now built little. Difficulties emerged in ensuring adequate housing for a growing population, and uncertainty grew as to where future investment in necessities like electricity supply would come from. Having narrowed in the Golden Age, inequality of income and wealth widened. Environmental concerns also grew, from the local smogs of the 1950s, through the concern with acid rain from the 1960s, to the current global concern with climate change. The financial crash of 2008 and the decision to 'Brexit' in the referendum of 2016 reduced economic growth and highlighted the extent of economic change since 1951. This is a study of that change.
The Home Place
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Author : J. Drew Lanham
language : en
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Release Date : 2016-08-22
The Home Place written by J. Drew Lanham and has been published by Milkweed Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“A groundbreaking work about race and the American landscape, and a deep meditation on nature…wise and beautiful.”—Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk A Foreword Reviews Best Book of the Year and Nautilus Silver Award Winner In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored. Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina—a place “easy to pass by on the way somewhere else”—has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins to ask what it means to be “the rare bird, the oddity.” By turns angry, funny, elegiac, and heartbreaking, The Home Place is a meditation on nature and belonging by an ornithologist and professor of ecology, at once a deeply moving memoir and riveting exploration of the contradictions of black identity in the rural South—and in America today. “When you’re done with The Home Place, it won’t be done with you. Its wonders will linger like everything luminous.”—Star Tribune “A lyrical story about the power of the wild…synthesizes his own family history, geography, nature, and race into a compelling argument for conservation and resilience.”—National Geographic
20th Century Britain
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Author : Nicole Robertson
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-12-30
20th Century Britain written by Nicole Robertson and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-30 with History categories.
20th Century Britain provides an authoritative and accessible survey of contemporary research on economic activity, society, political development and culture. Written by leading academics, it examines recent advances in scholarship and gives a grounding in established approaches and topics. The first part comprises thematic essays covering the whole of the twentieth century, including chapters on the economy, economic management, big business, parliamentary politics, leisure, work, health, international economic relations and empire. It uncovers key areas of equality and diversity in chapters on women, living standards, social mobility, ethnicity and multiculturalism, and gender and sexuality. The most recent subfields of historical studies are also explored, including disability history and environmental economic history. The second part focuses on seismic events and topics covering shorter timeframes, including the World Wars, interwar Depression, Britain and European integration, sexual behaviours, civil society, the 1960s cultural revolution and resisting racism. This collection provides an essential guide to current academic thinking on the most important elements of twentieth-century British history and is a useful tool for all students and scholars interested in modern Britain.
The Month
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
The Month written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with categories.
Listening To British Nature
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Author : Michael Guida
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-01-14
Listening To British Nature written by Michael Guida and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-14 with Music categories.
Listening to British Nature: Wartime, Radio, and Modern Life, 1914-1945 traces the impact of sounds and rhythm of the natural world and how they were listened, interpreted, and used amid the pressures of modern life to in early twentieth-century Britain. Author Michael Guida argues thatdespite and sometimes because of the chaos of wartime and the struggle to recover, nature's voices were drawn close to provide everyday security, sustenance and a sense of the future. Nature's sonic presences were not obliterated by the noise of war, the advent of radio broadcasting and the rush ofthe everyday, rather they came to complement and provide alternatives to modern modes of living.Listening to British Nature examines how trench warfare demanded the creation of new listening cultures in order to understand danger and to imagine survival. It tells of the therapeutic communities who used quiet and rural rhythms to restore shell-shocked soldiers and of ramblers who sought toimmerse themselves in the sensualities of the outdoors, revealing how home-front listening in the Blitz was punctuated by birdsong broadcast by the BBC. In focusing on the sensing of sounds and rhythms, this study demonstrates how nature retained its emotional potency as the pace andunpredictabilities of life seemed to increase and new man-made sounds and sonic media appeared all around. To listen to nature during this time was to cultivate an intimate connection with its vibrations and to sense an enduring order and beauty that could be taken into the future.
The Garden
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Author : Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall
language : en
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Release Date : 2003
The Garden written by Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall and has been published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Gardening categories.
The unique style of the English garden is admired and copied all over the world. This book shows how the gardens of each period reflect the political, social and cultural life, how they affected architecture, clothes and manners, and how ideas and plants from other continents were embraced to form the art of English garden making. The contributions and personalities of individual men and women are analysed and celebrated. The author reveals how each period was influenced by a love or hate relationship with nature, alternatively keeping it at bay or taming it, manipulating, romanticising or celebrating it.
The Artist
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
The Artist written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with categories.
Anglomania
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Author : Ian Buruma
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Release Date : 2015-09-10
Anglomania written by Ian Buruma and has been published by Atlantic Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-10 with History categories.
With its distinctive history of civil liberties and the delicate balance between social order and the free pursuit of self-interest, England has always fascinated its continental neighbours. Buruma examines the history of ideas of Englishness and what Europeans have admired (or loathed) in England across the centuries. Voltaire wondered why British laws could not be transplanted into France, or even to Serbia; Karl Marx thought the English were too stupid to start a revolution; Goethe worshipped Shakespeare; and the Kaiser was convinced that Britain was run by Jews. Combining the stories of European Anglophiles and Anglophobes with memories of his own Anglo-Dutch-German-Jewish family, this utterly original book illuminates the relationship between Britain and Europe, revealing how Englishness - and others' views of it - have shaped modern European history.