Ideology and landscape in historical perspective: essays on the meanings of some places in the past

List of figures List of Contributors Preface Introduction: on ideology and landscape Alan R. H. Baker 1. Ideology and landscape in early printed maps of Jerusalem Rehav Rubin 2. Ideological contexts and the reconstruction of biblical landscapes in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries: Dr Edward Wells and the historical geography of the Holy Land Robin A. Butlin 3. Land-God-man: concepts of land ownership in traditional cultures in Eretz-Israel Ruth Kark 4. Religious ideology and landscape formation: the case of the German Templars in Eretz-Israel Yossi Ben-Artzi 5. Planned temple towns and Brahmin villages as spatial expressions of the ritual politics of medieval kingdoms in South India Hans-Jurgen Nitz 6. Territorial strategies applied to captive peoples D. W. Meinig 7. Ideology and landscape of settler colonialism in Virginia and Dutch South Africa: a comparative analysis Leonard Guelke 8. Municipal sanitary ideology and the control of the urban environment in colonial Singapore Brenda S. A. Yeoh 9. Ideology and the landscape of British Palestine, 1918-1929 Gideon Biger 10. Ideology, identity, landscape and society in the lower colonies of British North America, 1840-1860 Graeme Wynn 11. Interpreting a nation's identity: artists as creators of national consciousness Brian S. Osborne 12. Collective consciousness and the local landscape: national ideology and the commune council of Mesland (Loir-et-Cher) as landscape architect during the nineteenth century Alan R. H. Baker 13. A contrast of Old World ideology: Germans and Scotch-Irish in the Ozarks Russel L. Gerlach 14. Ideology in the planned order upon the land: the example of Germany Dietrich Denecke 15. Parading: a lively tradition in early Victorian Toronto Peter G. Goheen Index.