Exploring environmental history : selected essays

Exploring environmental history : selected essays / T.C. Smout.

This volume, newly available in paperback, 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, thoug...

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Main Author: Smout, T. C. (T. Christopher) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Human ecology > History.
Human ecology > Scotland > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Environmental Policy.
Human ecology
Humanekologi > historia > Storbritannien.
Humanekologi > historia > Skottland.
Scotland
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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