Importance of Setting


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Publication: Overland Journal, Vol. 27, No. 4

Author: David Welch

Date of Publication: Winter 2009

PDF File: Importance-of-Setting.pdf

Description


Those of us with an interest in history have been much less successful in articulating the importance of the setting (or landscape) to the location of an historical event. As a result we are left to visualize history by attempting to subtract irrelevant things from the view, a difficult if not impossible task.