SPANISH & PORTUGUESE GARDENS
Author : ROSE STANDISH NICHOLS
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Page : 518 pages
File Size : 35,43 MB
Release : 1924
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Author : ROSE STANDISH NICHOLS
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Page : 518 pages
File Size : 35,43 MB
Release : 1924
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Author : Barbara Segall
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,78 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Garden tours
ISBN : 9781568981611
This authoritative new series of guidebooks to the gardens of Europe is the perfect companion for any garden enthusiast, whether tourist or armchair traveler. Each title is a richly illustrated in-depth guide to over 100 gardens, from the famous to little-known hidden treasures, and features colorful photography and easy-to-read illustrations commissioned especially for this series. Also included are maps, directions, complete visitor information, special features, and neighboring sites of interest. Each guide, written by a gardening expert, begins with a comprehensive background on the country's garden history and local climate. The most significant gardens in each volume are featured in even greater detail, accompanied by illustrated plans of the gardens and close-up views of particular features. The numerous color photographs and maps show travelers what awaits at each garden. The Garden Lover's Guide's are indispensible aids for those planning European travel itineraries. The Garden Lover's Guide to Spain and Portugal is for everyone who enjoys visiting gardens. In this compact volume, gardening writer Barbara Segall explores over 100 of the most beautiful Iberian gardens, highlighting their most striking features, describing their distinctive characters, and revealing charming aspects that will delight every garden lover. From Antoni Gaudi's fantastic Park Guell, to the exotic Moorish pools and patios of the Alhambra and Generalife, to the intricate parterres at the Palacio Nacional de Queluz, this volume will guide travelers to some of the most breathtaking sights in Europe.
Author : Lyle N. McAlister
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 38,94 MB
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 145290183X
Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492-1700 was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Spanish and Portuguese expansion substantially altered the social, political, and economic contours of the modern world. In his book, Lyle McAlister provides a narrative and interpretive history of the exploration and settlement of the Americas by Spain and Portugal. McAlister divides this period (and the book) into three parts. First, he describes the formation of Old World societies with particular attention to those features that influenced the directions and forms of overseas expansion. Second, he traces the dynamic processes of conquest and colonization that between 1492 and about 1570 firmly established Spanish and Portuguese dominion in the New World. The third part deals with colonial growth and consolidation down to about 1700. McAlister's main themes are: the post-conquest territorial expansion that established the limits of what later came to be called Latin America, the emergence of distinctively Spanish and Portuguese American societies and economies, the formation of systems of imperial control and exploitation, and the ways in which conflicts between imperial and American interests were reconciled. This comprehensive history, with its extensive bibliographic essay and attention to historiographic issues, will be a standard reference for students and scholars of the period.
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Page : 460 pages
File Size : 43,59 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Architecture, Domestic
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Author : John Claudius Loudon
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Page : 1454 pages
File Size : 38,65 MB
Release : 1824
Category : Gardening
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Author : John Claudius Loudon
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Page : 1294 pages
File Size : 34,7 MB
Release : 1829
Category : Gardening
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Author : Hubertus Fischer
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,69 MB
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 3319263420
This volume focuses on the outstanding contributions made by botany and the mathematical sciences to the genesis and development of early modern garden art and garden culture. The many facets of the mathematical sciences and botany point to the increasingly “scientific” approach that was being adopted in and applied to garden art and garden culture in the early modern period. This development was deeply embedded in the philosophical, religious, political, cultural and social contexts, running parallel to the beginning of processes of scientization so characteristic for modern European history. This volume strikingly shows how these various developments are intertwined in gardens for various purposes.
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Page : 1098 pages
File Size : 11,73 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Bibliography
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Excerpts from and citations to reviews of more than 8,000 books each year, drawn from coverage of 109 publications. Book Review Digest provides citations to and excerpts of reviews of current juvenile and adult fiction and nonfiction in the English language. Reviews of the following types of books are excluded: government publications, textbooks, and technical books in the sciences and law. Reviews of books on science for the general reader, however, are included. The reviews originate in a group of selected periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and general science published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. - Publisher.
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Page : 500 pages
File Size : 41,78 MB
Release : 1924
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Author : John Claudius Loudon
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Page : 1498 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 1822
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