Landscape and Heritage Studies
About the Book Series
Landscape and Heritage Studies (LHS) is an English-language series about the history, heritage, and transformation of the natural and cultural landscapes, and built environment. This series aims at publishing research in landscape, (the design of) the built environment and heritage from established, new, or under-highlighted directions or perspectives.
LHS is published in collaboration with the VU Amsterdam Interfaculty Research Institute for Culture, Cognition, History and Heritage (CLUE+).
LHS welcomes both monographs and edited volumes, theoretically oriented approaches and detailed case studies, dealing with:
The interactions between physical and material aspects and processes of landscapes and landscape experiences, meanings and representations.
Critical perspectives to heritage and identity through the lenses of inclusion and exclusion, authorized and informal heritage, explicit and implicit meanings of the landscape.
Human-environment relationships in the context of the Anthropocene, to understand the development of human-nature interactions through time and to study the natural, cultural, and social values of places and landscapes, with an emphasis on community, practice, locality, and landscape futures.
Perspectives on the temporality and dynamic of landscapes and the built environment that go beyond traditional concepts of time, dating and chronology. For example, through the lens of cultural history, landscape biography, studies that include the analysis of visual and material culture.
The appropriation and transformation of sites, places, destinations, landscapes, monuments and buildings, and their representation and meaning in distinct cultural context, including studies on urban spatial history and the urban-rural nexus.
The conceptualization and musealization of landscape as heritage and the (contested) values of ‘heritagescapes’ for the construction and reproduction of memories and identities.
Landscape Biographies: Geographical, Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Production and Transmission of Landscapes
1st Edition
Edited
By Rita Hermans, Jan Kolen, Hans Renes
January 10, 2026
Landscape Biographies explores the long and complex histories of landscapes from personal and social perspectives. As an essential part of human life-worlds, landscapes have the potential to absorb something of people's lives, works, and thoughts. But landscapes also shape their own life-histories ...
The Architecture of Empire in Modern Europe: Space, Place, and the Construction of an Imperial Environment, 1860-1960
1st Edition
By Miel Groten
January 10, 2026
Empires stretched around the world, but also made their presence felt in architecture and urban landscapes. The Architecture of Empire in Modern Europe traces the entanglement of the European built environment with overseas imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As part of imperial ...
Waddenland Outstanding: History, Landscape and Cultural Heritage of the Wadden Sea Region
1st Edition
Edited
By Linde Egberts, Meindert Schroor
January 09, 2026
The Wadden Sea Region is comprised of the embanked coastal marshes and islands in the Wadden Sea near Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands. This area retains an exceptional common history in all its aspects: archaeologically, economically, socially, and culturally. Its settlement history of more ...
Biography of an Industrial Landscape: Carlsberg's Urban Spaces Retold
1st Edition
By Svava Riesto
December 01, 2025
Biography of an Industrial Landscape tells the story of one of the most significant urban redevelopment projects in northern Europe at the turn of the century. Examining the reinvention of the Carlsberg brewery site in Copenhagen as a city district, Svava Riesto unpacks the deeper assumptions about...
Heritage and Tourism: Places, Imageries and the Digital Age
1st Edition
Edited
By Linde Egberts, Maria Alvarez
December 01, 2025
Heritage and tourism mutually reinforce each other, with the presentation of heritage at physical sites mirrored by the ways heritage is presented on the internet. This interdisciplinary book uses humanities and social sciences to analyse the ways that heritage is branded and commodified, how ...
Topographic Memory and Victorian Travellers in the Dolomite Mountains: Peaks of Venice
1st Edition
By William Bainbridge
December 01, 2025
Guided by the romantic compass of Turner, Byron, and Ruskin, Victorian travellers to the Dolomites sketched in the mountainous backdrop of Venice a cultural ‘Petit Tour’ of global significance. As they zigzagged across a debatable land between Italy and Austria, Victorians discovered a unique ...
Monuments of Diverse Heritage in Early America: Placemaking and Preservation by Black, Indigenous, and Jewish Peoples
1st Edition
By Barry L. Stiefel
March 19, 2025
Monuments of Diverse Heritage in Early America: Placemaking and Preservation by Black, Indigenous, and Jewish Peoples explores a more inclusive history of preserving public historic sites. At a time when some Americans have embraced white nationalism in response to unfolding demographic changes and...
Archaeological Perspectives on Contested and Political Landscapes
1st Edition
Edited
By Eduardo Herrera Malatesta
February 12, 2025
This book focuses on alternative definitions of landscape in archaeology, particularly those that explicitly address landscapes’ political aspects. In doing so, this volume emphasizes the non-static, dialogic nature of landscape within a community and acknowledges how a community’s composition and ...
Landscape Archaeology between Art and Science: From a Multi- to an Interdisciplinary Approach
1st Edition
By Sjoerd Kluiving, Erika Guttmann-Bond
May 07, 2012
Researchers in landscape archaeology use two different definitions of landscape. One definition (landscape as territory) is used by the processual archaeologists, earth scientists, and most historical geographers within this volume. By contrast, post-processual archaeologists, new cultural ...