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Why are we so fascinated by ruins? Woodward looks back to the start of the cult in the 18th century, when follies were built in English landscape gardens. He examines Nazi fantasies, the shattered Statue of Liberty in the film Planet of the Apes and the Chelsea Flower Show's Millennium Ruin.
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In Ruins, Christopher Woodward
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- Title
- In Ruins
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Christopher Woodward
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Format
- Hardcover with dust jacket
- ISBN10
- 0375421998
- ISBN13
- 9780375421990
- Category
- World history
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- Why are we so fascinated by ruins? Woodward looks back to the start of the cult in the 18th century, when follies were built in English landscape gardens. He examines Nazi fantasies, the shattered Statue of Liberty in the film Planet of the Apes and the Chelsea Flower Show's Millennium Ruin.