Placing theme parks from the United States, Europe and Asia in a comparative,
multidisciplinary framework, this fascinating book argues that these fantasy environments …

It is considerably easier to say that modern philosophy began with Descartes than it is to
define the modernity and philosophy to which Descartes gave rise. In Lines of Thought …

What have cultural anthropologists, historical geographers, landscape ecologists and
environmental artists got in common? Along with eight other disciplines, from domains as …

This essay argues that the material culture of the Renaissance garden played an important
role in the development of Cartesian mathematical and mechanical philosophy. Garden …

First director of the Académie royale d'architecture, François Blondel established a lasting
model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval profession …

Salomon de Caus has been viewed as, variously, a Protestant martyr, the unsung inventor of
the steam engine, one of the most important early hydraulic engineers, and a garden …

The mathematical sciences of the early modern period comprised many fields of knowledge,
and those such as astronomy, geography, optics, music, practical geometry, acoustics …

Before France was a nation, France was promoted as a New Rome and the French as
descendents of ancient Gaul. Under Louis XIV, the idea of becoming French was not …

This paper examines horticulture in Ile Royale (Cape Breton) and focuses on the French
attempt to grow food through the introduction of gardens, animals and small mixed farms …

Processes of change in the landscape produce material outcomes, both organic and
inorganic, that exhibit the quality of novelty, or specific newness. The idea of change is …