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Hands on the Land: A History of the Vermont Landscape (Hardcover)

by J Albers (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: MIT Press (3 April 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0262011751
  • ISBN-13: 978-0262011754
  • Product Dimensions: 26.2 x 22.2 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,501,391 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"The fascination of Hands on the Land lies in its beautifully orchestrated build-up to the Vermont of today." -- Tom Hotaling, "Architecture Boston"

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An examination of the natural, environmental, social and ultimately human history of Vermont. The author shows how Vermont has come to stand for the ideal of unspoiled rural community, examining both the basis of the state's pastoral image and the equally real toll taken by the pressure of human hands on the land. Making use of accounts, advertisements, maps, landscape paintings and vintage photographs, Jan Albers delves into the stories and personalities behind the development of a succession of Vermont landscapes. Albers aims to show that like any landscape, the Vermont landscape reflects the human decisions that have been made about it - and that the more a community understands about how such decisions have been made, the better will be its future decisions.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Sense of Place, 20 Nov 2000
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Rarely has a volume of such physical grace and beauty contained such an important and topical message. I picked up my copy after returning to Vermont for a long weekend, and found the text both forceful, dynamic and informative, artistically combined with beautiful illustrations. Not a hagiography, and avoiding the temptation to airbrush the realities of Vermont into a pastiche of the country idyll in Yankee New England, Jan Albers has created an immensely readable but intellectually rigorous study of the development and land-use choices that Vermonters have made since the Abenaki were disturbed by white settlers.

This alone would be enough to qualify "Hands on the Land" for a place on the bookshelves of students of land-use and concerned citizens in rural and semi-rural areas everywhere. For a UK audience, the impact of sheep farming vs. cattle grazing (which denuded the forests of Vermont in the manner of the North York moors in the later 19th Century) only adds interest. That this study is so accessible and lavishly illustrated, (much in the style of the latest offerings from the OUP History of England series) commends it to the broadest possible audience. In fact, I was so taken with this that I bought two - one for my mother, a native and transplanted Vermonter, and one for me - your bookshelf will be a richer and happier place with a copy!

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