Trees

Woodlands and Western Civilization

Richard Hayman (Author)
Trees cover

Trees

Woodlands and Western Civilization

Richard Hayman (Author)
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Description

Trees are special, being bigger than us both physically and metaphorically. Trees: Woodlands and Western Civilization is an account of our relationship with them. Adam and Eve were expelled from Eden for eating from the Tree of Knowledge and the great tree Yggdrasil was central to Norse mythology. Tacitus, followed by German nationalists and historians of liberty, located freedom in the German forests. Medieval forests were both protected hunting parks and the refuge of Robin Hood. Shakespeare contrasted the simplicity of life in the Forest of Arden with the artificial manners of the court, and indeed poets from Virgil to Hardy have drawn inspiration from trees. While eighteenth-century aristocrats controlled trees in plantations around their houses, Romantics delighted in vast untamed forests, and the American Henry Thoreau withdrew into the woods to reintegrate himself with nature. Throughout history, our views of trees have been affected by the changing use of woodland and the effects of deforestation and urbanisation. How we see trees today will dictate how trees are treated in the future.

Table of Contents

Illustrations

Preface

1. Roots and Branches

2. Gods

3. Harts and Boars

4. Exiles

5. Outlaws

6. Lovers

7. Patriots

8. |AltdeutSche Walder

9. Big Trees

10. Patrician Trees

11. Plebeian Underwood

12. Woodlanders

13. Dreamers

14. Experts

15. Green Men

Notes

Further Reading

Index

Product details

Published 30 Jun 2007
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 336
ISBN 9780826439864
Imprint Hambledon Continuum
Illustrations 12
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

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Author

Richard Hayman

Richard Hayman is an archaeologist and architectur…

Reviews

  • "Richard Hayman's Trees is an entertaining and wise meander through the subject."   Reviewed in The London Review of Books, 2007.

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