Description: Acknowledgments Introduction: The Seeds of Discord 1. Natural Nature Transitions or Simultaneity: A Political and Philosophical Question Problematizing "Transitions": Landscape Gardening Classicism in Quotation Marks: An Iteration Transitions: A Return The French against the French Style What Makes Nature Natural The Exemplarity of Water Repeating the English: A Rhetorical Graft 2. National Nature English Resistances to the French French Reactions: Defending Le Notre French Reactions: Against Le Notre and the English Style Deferring the "Point of Perfection": The New French Garden (Natural Gardens) Nationalism in Gardens Nature as Liberty in English Treatises Nature as Liberty in French Treatises 3. Trade Winds Anglophobia European Colonialism: Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes Canada and Guiana in Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes Communication: Alterity in Raynal Communication: Diderot's Savages and Civilized Communication: Of the Deaf-Mute 4. Philosophical Gardens Colonizing Space Scopophilia Descartes and Locke Repetition and Displacement: Condillac Condillacian Effects: Attention Condillacian Effects: Imagination, Memory, Reminiscence Philosophical Gardens Conclusion: The Future of the Garden/The Garden of the Future The Garden in Movement in the History of Landscape Gardening The Andre Citroen Park: "Sharing the Signature" Garden without Man Notes Bibliography Index

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