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David Lowenthal’s Archipelagic and Transatlantic Landscapes: His Public and Scholarly Heritage book cover

1st Edition

David Lowenthal’s Archipelagic and Transatlantic Landscapes His Public and Scholarly Heritage

Edited By Kenneth R. Olwig Copyright 2024
110 Pages
by Routledge

110 Pages
by Routledge

110 Pages
by Routledge
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David Lowenthal was well known for his historical and geographical contribution to conservation and environmental thinking, his understanding and appreciation of landscape, and his critical public and scholarly contribution to heritage debates as a founder of heritage studies. He was a public intellectual and academic scholar, who worked with scholars and practitioners as well as within public... Read more

Introduction—David Lowenthal’s Archipelagic and Transatlantic landscapes: His Public and Scholarly Heritage

Kenneth R Olwig

1. David Lowenthal, 1923-2018, renowned academic and public intellectual

Hugh Clout

2. David Lowenthal on geography and its past

Trevor J. Barnes

3. Transatlantic landscapes: Gottmann and the roots of Lowenthal’s intellectual heritage

Luca Muscarà

4. David and Max Lowenthal – and Marsh: public intellectuals and advocates in the political landscape. A personal view

Kenneth R. Olwig

5. David Lowenthal and the genesis of critical conservation thought

Laura Alice Watt

6. Lowenthal, the Caribbeanist

Elizabeth Thomas-Hope

7. David Lowenthal’s archipelagic landscape of learning

Sverker Sörlin

Afterword—David Lowenthal: Museums and the Idea of Heritage

Charles Saumarez Smith

Biography

Kenneth R. Olwig has taught geography and landscape architecture in Scandinavia and the USA and been a Fellow at advanced research centres in Denmark, Norway, and the USA. He is the author of Nature’s Ideological Landscape (1984/2021); Landscape, Nature and the Body Politic (2002); and The Meanings of Landscape (2019).

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