Abstract
The heritages of the natural and of the man-made environment exhibit remarkable parallels along with instructive differences. Campaigns to conserve nature and to preserve remnants of antiquity have become increasingly linked in content and in opposing forces. This essay traces the careers of these two campaigns, explains how and why they converge or diverge, and offers a critique of their rationales and effectiveness.
I am grateful to Colin Clarke and Oxford School of Geography students, to Robert Z. Melnick and his colleagues and students at the University of Oregon, to Bryn Green of Wye Agricultural College, and to my own Conservation and Preservation students at University College London for inspiring my exploration of the conjunctures and divergences between these topics. Some of these themes are discussed in another context in my ‘Heritage and Its Interpreters’, Heritage Australia, 5:2 (1986).
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David Lowenthal, ‘Finding Valued Landscapes’, Progress in Human Geography, 2 (1978) pp. 375–418.
Brian M. Fagan, The Rape of the Nile ( London: Macdonald & Jane’s, 1977 ) pp. 44–7.
David Lowenthal, The Past is a Foreign Country (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), pp. 75–88, 390–1.
David Lowenthal, ‘Introduction’, in George Perkins Marsh, Man and Nature (1864) (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1965), pp. xviii-xix.
George P. Marsh, Address Delivered before the Agricultural Society of Rutland County, September 30, 1847 (Rutland, Vt., 1848).
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Pierre de Lagarde, La Mémoire des le Pierres (Paris: Albin Michel, 1979) pp. 54–78.
George P. Marsh, The American Historical School (Troy, New York, 1847);
David Lowenthal, George Perkins Marsh (New York: Columbia University Press, 1958) pp. 101–3.
Richard W. Longstreth, ‘Preservation’s Exposed Flank’, Historic Preservation 32: 6 (1980) pp. 54–5.
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Lowenthal, D. (1988). Conserving Nature and Antiquity. In: Baark, E., Svedin, U. (eds) Man, Nature and Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09087-7_7
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