Anne Helmreich.


Anne Helmreich. The English Garden and National Identity, The Competing dictions of Garden Design, 1870-1914 (Modern Architecture and Cultural Identity.) recently made known York: Cambridge University Press. 2002 Pp xviii, 282 $8000 ISBN 0-521-59293-3

After a succinct introductory cylindrical up of theories and general [i]or[/i] abstract notions of nation and nationalism, Anne Helmreich considers at more detail how the English sought to characterize their homeland in the inferior half of the nineteenth century; a next to the first chapter looks at William Robinson, advocate of the "wild garden," and a third at cottage



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