Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Gardening : Volume VI: The Art of the Gardener

This collection brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening across the long nineteenth-century. Economic expansion, empire, the growth of the middle classes and suburbia, the changing role of women and the professionalisation of gardening, alongside industrialisation and the development of leisure and mass markets were all elements that contributed to and were influenced by the evolution of gardens. It is a subject that is both global and multidisciplinary and this set provides the reader with a variety of ways in which to read gardens - through recognition of how they were conceived and experienced as they developed--

• | Author: Sarah Dewis, Brent Elliott
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jun 19, 2024
• | Number of Pages: NA pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1032698969
• | ISBN-13: 9781032698960