Contents

Epigraph

Introduction: The Politics and Passions of Gardens

One Founding Gardens (1600–1826)

Photographic Insert

Two A Walk in the Park: Suburbia and the Sublime (1820–1890)

Three The Golden Age: Modernity and Its Discontents (1880–1915)

Four Forward to the Past: The Long Romance of the Arts & Crafts Garden (1850–1945)

Five California and the Modern Garden (1920–1960s)

Six Art Confronts Nature, Redux: Triumphs and Anxieties of Landscape Architecture (1940s–2000s)

Seven All Our Missing Parts: Money and Virtue in the Go-Go Years

Notes

Bibliography

Searchable Terms

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Credits

About the Publisher