Examines gardens of war in the twentieth century, including gardens built behind the trenches in World War I, in the ghettos during World War II, and in Japanese-American internment camps in the US, as well as gardens created by soldiers at their bases and encampments during the Gulf War, Vietnam, Korea and the Second World Wars.
Defiant Gardens Summary
Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime by Kenneth I. Helphand
Defiant Gardens examines gardens of war in the twentieth century, including gardens built behind the trenches in World War I, in the ghettos during World War II, and in Japanese-American internment camps in the US, as well as gardens created by soldiers at their bases and encampments during the Gulf War, Vietnam, Korea and the Second World Wars.
Defiant Gardens Reviews
An incredible and deply moving history of the ways in which soldiers and civilians, often in the most grievous and immiserated circumstances, have created little pockets of horticultural hope throughout the twentieth century... The photographs alone are extraordinary, but the chronicles of imaginative resistance are almost beyond belief. (New Statesman)
About Kenneth I. Helphand
Kenneth I Helphand is a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Oregon. He is the author of several previous books, and the former editor of Landscape Journal. A fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, he is also an honorary member of the Israel Association of Landscape Architects.
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GOR011065639
9781595340450
1595340459
Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime by Kenneth I. Helphand
Winner of American Society of Landscape Architecture Award of Excellence in Research 2008 Winner of Environmental Design Research Association Research Award 2008 Winner of American Horticultural Society Book Award 2008 Winner of Foundation for Landscape Studies John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize 2008 Winner of ForeWord Magazine's Silver Medal (history) 2008 Winner of Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Literature Award 2008 Winner of Garden Writers Association Gold Award 2008 Commended for Portland Oregonian Bestseller 2008 Commended for New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2008
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