Exploring environmental history: selected essays
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1. Verfasser: Smout, T. C., (T. Christopher) (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press ©2009
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-237) and index
The Environmental Historiography of Britain -- The Highlands and the Roots of Green Consciousness, 1750-1990 -- Exploiting Scottish Semi-Natural Woods, 1600-1850 -- The Pinewoods and Human Use, 1600-1900 -- The Atlantic Oakwoods as a Commercial Crop in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- Bogs and People in Scotland Since 1600 -- Energy Rich, Energy Poor: Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, 1600-1800 -- The Improvers and the Scottish Environment: Soils, Bogs and Woods -- Trees as Historic Landscapes: from Wallace's Oak to Reforesting Scotland -- The Alien Species in Twentieth-Century Britain: Inventing a New Vermin -- Modern Agriculture and the Decline of British Biodiversity -- History, Nature and Culture in British Nature Conservation -- Environmental Consciousness
This volume brings together the best of T.C. Smout's recent articles and contributions to books and journals on the topic of environmental history and offers them as a collection of 'explorations'. The author's interests are multi-faceted and, though often focussed on post-1600 Scotland, by no means restricted to that area
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (vii, 248 pages)
ISBN:0748635149
9780748635146

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