Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles Paperback / softback
by Chandra Mukerji
Part of the Cambridge Cultural Social Studies series
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In seventeenth-century France, land took on new importance for the practice of politics and rituals of court life.
In her major new book, Chandra Mukerji highlights the connections between the two seemingly disparate activities of engineering and garden design.
She shows how, at Versailles in particular, the royal park showcased French skills in using nature and art to design a distinctively French landscape and create a naturalized political territoriality.
She challenges the association of state power with social and legal structures alone and demonstrates the importance for Louis XIV and his state of a controlled physical site, a demarcated French territory within the wider European geo-political continent.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:420 pages, 150 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:25/09/1997
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- ISBN:9780521599597
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:420 pages, 150 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:25/09/1997
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- ISBN:9780521599597
