ISBN:
0773589813
,
9780773589810
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xxiv, 488 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates)
,
colour illustrations, colour maps
Edition:
[CEL version]
Series Statement:
McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series 2
DDC:
304.2/09713
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
;
Ecology
;
Human ecology
;
Geschichte
;
Ökologie
;
Human ecology History
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Fifth Line: A Farm Just Like Thousands of Others -- Part One The Land and What Happened to It. 1 The Land beyond Memory: Before 1500 ; 2 Stone Age Meets Iron -- and Smallpox: The 1500s and 1600s ; 3 Wilding the Land with War: The 1700s ; 4 Manufacturing the Land: The 1800s
Description / Table of Contents:
Part Two Voices of Nature Past. 5 Taking the Wildlife: 1500-1900 ; 6 Clearing the Wood: 1500-1900 ; 7 Taming the Unforested: Prairies, Alvars, Barrens, Cliffs, Bogs, and Fens ; 8 The True North: Three Centuries On
Description / Table of Contents:
Part Three Nature's Prospect. 9 Invasives: The Unintended Consequences of the Uninvited ; 10 Growing Cities, Changing Climates: The Next Conversion ; 11 Restoration: A New Native Landscape -- Afterword: Nature Never Repeats Itself
Note:
Description based on print version record
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