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Book Review: Dorothy Richardson’s art of memory: space, identity, text 书评:多萝西·理查森的记忆艺术:空间、身份、文本

Ecumene (continues as Cultural Geographies) Pub Date : 2000-10-01 DOI: 10.1177/096746080000700414

P. Shurmer-smith

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Book Review: Art for the nation: exhibitions and the London public, 1747-2001 书评:为国家服务的艺术:展览和伦敦公众，1747-2001

Ecumene (continues as Cultural Geographies) Pub Date : 2000-10-01 DOI: 10.1177/096746080000700408

M. Ogborn

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Book Review: John Evelyn’s Elysium Britannicum and European gardening 书评:约翰·伊夫林的《不列颠极乐世界》与欧洲园艺

Ecumene (continues as Cultural Geographies) Pub Date : 2000-10-01 DOI: 10.1177/096746080000700410

H. Prince

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Guns, Game and the Grandee: The Cultural Politics of Deerstalking in the Scottish Highlands 《枪、游戏和贵族:苏格兰高地猎鹿的文化政治》

Ecumene (continues as Cultural Geographies) Pub Date : 2000-10-01 DOI: 10.1177/096746080000700402

H. Lorimer

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Book Review: Environmental discourse and practice 书评:环境话语与实践

Ecumene (continues as Cultural Geographies) Pub Date : 2000-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/096746080000700309

D. Demeritt

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...here nor there... …这里也不在那里……

Ecumene (continues as Cultural Geographies) Pub Date : 2000-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/096746080000700307

P. Himmel

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Book Review: Escapism 书评:逃避现实

Ecumene (continues as Cultural Geographies) Pub Date : 2000-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/096746080000700311

J. R. Gold

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Book Review: A book of migrations: some passages in Ireland 书评:一本关于移民的书:爱尔兰的一些段落

Ecumene (continues as Cultural Geographies) Pub Date : 2000-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/096746080000700312

C. Nash

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Book Review: Discourses of the environment, Greenspeak: a study of environmental discourse 书评:《环境话语》，《绿色话语:环境话语研究》

Ecumene (continues as Cultural Geographies) Pub Date : 2000-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/096746080000700308

Y. Rydin

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In search of primeval Russia: stylistic evolution in the landscapes of Nicholas Roerich, 1897-1914 在寻找原始俄罗斯:风格演变的景观尼古拉斯·罗里奇，1897-1914

Ecumene (continues as Cultural Geographies) Pub Date : 2000-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/096746080000700303

J. Mccannon

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