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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"pleasure gardens"”.
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Pleasure Gardens
… of styles, forms and symbols found in gardens. It is less a research project into the history, meaning, and rules of these different gardens throughout time and more of an appreciation, appropriation and reinvention in fantastical form. There is no attempt in these paintings to …
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"From the smoke of the town, to the fields and the groves": gender, class and the pursuit of leisure in London's eighteenth-century pleasure gardens
… in which gender was regularly debated, like pleasure gardens, are not studied. Examining public spaces like pleasure gardens demonstrates the limitations imposed on women's history by "separate spheres” historiography and contributes to our understanding of women's work because it shows that …
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"A journey to the land of Eden": a survey of Virginia land use from 1584 to 1884
… of agriculture and domestic utilitarian and pleasure gardens. It was determined that the expectation of an Eden in Virginia resulted in the exploitation of Virginia's resources and the creation of formal gardens as a symbol of control over the land. Garden designs and plants used during …
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Cultural Translations: A Global history of the chili pepper in Architecture
… which the chili grows wild; from the formalized pleasure gardens where it sits among cyclamens and tulips in Europe at the dawn of early modernity to the battle fields of Hungary-Ottoman frontier; from colonial plantations of the Portuguese bordering the Indian west coast to the royal miniature …