Exploring environmental history [ selected essays
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.
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press ,
c2009
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The Environmental Historiography of Britain
- 2. The Highlands and the Roots of Green Consciousness
- 3. Exploiting Scottish Semi-natural Woods, 1600-1990
- 4. The Pinewoods and Human Use, 1600-1900
- 5. The Atlantic Oakwoods as a Commercial Crop in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- 6. Bogs and People in Scotland since 1600
- 7. Energy Rich, Energy Poor: Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, 1600-1800
- 8. Improvers and the Scottish Environment: Soils, Bogs and Woods
- 9. Trees as Historic Landscapes: from Wallace's Oak to Reforesting Scotland
- 10. The Alien Species in Twentieth-Century Britain: Inventing a New Vermin
- 11. Modern Agriculture and the Decline of British Biodiversity
- 12. History, Nature and Culture in British Nature Conservation
- 13. Environmental Consciousness