Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies)

Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies)

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In Louis XIV's France, land took on new importance in politics and court life. A sequestered aristocracy promenaded in formal gardens while the military moved across the landscape, marking state boundaries with fortresses and refiguring the interior with canals and forests. Chandra Mukerji highlights the connections between the seemingly disparate activities of engineering and garden design, showing how the gardens at Versailles showcased French skills in using nature and art to design a distinctively French landscape and create a naturalized political territoriality.

Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies),Chandra Mukerji,Jeffrey C. Alexander,Steven Seidman,Cambridge University Press,0521599598,17th century,Europe - France,France,Gardening/Plants,Gardens,History,Military engineering,Parc de Versailles (Versailles,Pictorial works,Politics and government,Sociology,Sociology - General,Symbolic aspects,Cultural studies,France--Politics and government--17th century,Human ecology,Social Science / Sociology / General

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