Perspectives on Garden Histories

edited by Michel Conan

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Michel Conan / Introduction

Elisabeth Blair MacDougall / Prelude: Landscape Studies, 1952–1972

David R. Coffin / The Study of the History of the Italian Garden until the First Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium

Mirka Benes / Recent Developments and Perspectives in the Historiography of Italian Gardens

John Dixon Hunt / Approaches (New and Old) to Garden History

Michael Leslie / History and Historiography in the English Landscape Garden

James L. Wescoat Jr. / Mughal Gardens: The Re-emergence of Comparative Possibilities and the Wavering of Practical Concern

Kenneth Helphand / "Leaping the Property Line": Observations on Recent American Garden History

Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn / The Search for "Ecological Goodness" among Garden Historians

Michel Conan / From Vernacular Gardens to a Social Anthropology of Gardening

Stanislaus Fung / Longing and Belonging in Chinese Garden History

Contributors

Index