The English Garden and National Identity, The Competing Styles of Garden Design, 1870-1914.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)

Anne Helmreich. The English Garden and National Identity, The Competing Styles of Garden Design, 1870-1914 (Modern Architecture and Cultural Identity.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xviii, 282. $80.00. ISBN 0-521-59293-3.

After a succinct introductory round up of theories and concepts of nation and nationalism, Anne Helmreich considers at more length how the English sought to characterize their homeland in the second half of the nineteenth century; a second chapter looks at William Robinson, advocate of the "wild garden," and a third at cottage gardens, ...

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