Imagined Country
Environment, Culture, and Society

John Rennie Short (Author)

9780815629542

Paperback / softback, published 15 November 2005

280 pages, 75 black and white illustrations
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.369 kg

Imagined Country views the environment as a social construct, defined, interpreted, and reproduced by culture and ideology . . . . The book makes its case on that issue very well." —National Geographic Research and Exploration

"Myths destroy time . . . ideologies reify space.' Through these two structures John Rennie Short examines the roles of the wilderness, the country, and the city in politics and art. . . . This is a rare achievement." — The Higher