Middle East Garden Traditions

Middle East Garden Traditions
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Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Total Pages : 378
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ISBN-10 : 088402329X
ISBN-13 : 9780884023296
Rating : 4/5 (296 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Middle East Garden Traditions by : Michel Conan

Download or read book Middle East Garden Traditions written by Michel Conan and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 2007 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book unites new information and surprising results from the last fifteen years of garden research, at a remove from the clichés of Orientalism. Garden archaeology reveals the economic importance of Judean gardens in Roman times and the visual complexity of gardens created and transformed in Moorish Spain. More contemporary approaches unravel the cultural continuities, variations, and differences between gardens in the Middle East since Roman times and in the Islamic world.


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