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  • Landscape Biographies

    Geographical, Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Production and Transmission of Landscapes

    Series series Landscape and Heritage Studies
    Landscape Biographies explores the long and complex histories of landscapes from personal and social perspectives. As an essential part of human life-worlds, landscapes have the potential to absorb something of people's lives, works, and thoughts. But landscapes also shape their own life-histories at different timescales, transcending human life-cycles and generating their own temporalities and ... Read more

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  • Landscape, Heritage and National Identity in Modern Europe

    by Hans Renes ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book describes the way in which landscape and landscape heritage have been – and still are – used to define national identities. It shows how national narratives use different types of landscapes. Some nations use nature as their main point of reference, partly to circumcise conflicts between different ethnic groups. Other nations use agrarian landscapes, that are often describes as timeless ... Read more

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  • Microplastic Pollution

    Occurrence, Health Risk and Challenges

    Series series Sustainable Industrial and Environmental Bioprocesses
    This reference book reviews various aspects of microplastics, from their sources and manifestation in terrestrial, aquatic, and air environments to their fate in wastewater treatment systems. It also covers sampling, analysis, and detection methods for microplastics, along with advanced instrumentation for quantification. Further, the book presents health risk analysis and the toxicity of ... Read more

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  • European Engagement under Review

    Exporting Values, Rules, and Practices to the Post-Soviet Space

    Series Book 15 - An Interdisciplinary Series of the Centre for Intercultural and European Studies - CINTEUS
    This timely book seeks to contribute to the debate on the transfer of values, rules, and practices by European actors to former soviet countries. The actors in focus include multilateral organizations, such as the European Union, the Council of Europe, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, as well as European governments and non-governmental organizations. The contributions ... Read more

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    Antiquity to Modernity

    Winner of the 2016 Antoinette Forrester Downing Award presented by the Society of Architectural Historians.In many cities across the world, particularly in Europe, old buildings form a prominent part of the built environment, and we often take it for granted that their contribution is intrinsically positive. How has that widely-shared belief come about, and is its continued general acceptance ... Read more

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  • From Museum Critique to the Critical Museum

    Since the late nineteenth century, museums have been cited as tools of imperialism and colonialism, as strongholds of patriarchalism, masculinism, homophobia and xenophobia, and accused both of elitism and commercialism. But, could the museum absorb and benefit from its critique, turning into a critical museum, into the site of resistance rather than ritual? This book looks at the ways in which ... Read more

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  • Body Cultures

    Essays on Sport, Space & Identity by Henning Eichberg

    Edited by John Bale, Chris Philo ...
    Body Cultures explores the relationship between the body, sport and landscape. This book presents the first critically edited collection of Henning Eichberg's provocative essays into 'body culture'. Eichberg, a well-known scholar in continental Europe who draws upon the ideas of Elias, Focault, Habermas and others, is now attracting considerable interest from Anglo-American sociologists, ... Read more

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  • The Nature of Cultural Heritage, and the Culture of Natural Heritage

    The idea that the heritage of nature is fundamentally cultural is provocative to many, but it is becoming increasingly accepted in the context of heritage preservation. It is argued here that a person’s perspective on natural vs. cultural heritage as a contested patrimony is, to some extent, governed by one’s intellectual and geographical position. In discourses influenced by the natural sciences ... Read more

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  • Doing Spatial History

    Series series Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources
    This volume provides a practical introduction to spatial history through the lens of the different primary sources that historians use. It is informed by a range of analytical perspectives and conveys a sense of the various facets of spatial history in a tangible, case-study based manner.The chapter authors hail from a variety of fields, including early modern and modern history, architectural ... Read more

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  • Popularizing National Pasts

    1800 to the Present

    Series series Routledge Approaches to History
    Popularizing National Pasts is the first truly cross-national and comparative study of popular national histories, their representations, the meanings given to them and their uses, which expands outside the confines of Western Europe and the US. It draws a picture of popular histories which is European in the full sense of this term. One of its fortes is the inclusion of Eastern Europe. The cross ... Read more

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  • Microbiological Challenges in the Energy Industries

    Bridging the Gap between Renewables and Non-Renewables

    Series series Microbes, Materials, and the Engineered Environment
    With an emerging focus on fighting climate change and improving sustainability, it is imperative to share knowledge gained from investigating and addressing microbiological challenges in the non-renewable industry to the renewable industry. This book explores topics related to microbiological challenges impacting the energy sector. The chapters cover technological advances related to a wide range ... Read more

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  • Flowscapes

    Designing infrastructure as landscape

    Flowscapes explores concepts, methods and techniques for design-related research on landscape infrastructures. Their main objective is to engage environmental and societal issues by means of integrative and design oriented approaches. Through focusing on interdisciplinary design-related research of landscape infrastructures they provide important clues for the development of spatial armatures that ... Read more

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