Perspectives on Garden Histories
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Contents
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
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