ISBN:
9780300163742
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (365 pages)
,
illustrations, photographs.
Series Statement:
Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
Series Statement:
The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
304.209411509033
Keywords:
Highlands (Scotland) - Environmental conditions - History - 18th century
;
Environmentalism ; Scotland ; History ; 18th century
;
Enlightenment ; Scotland
;
Scotland ; Intellectual life ; 18th century
;
Highlands (Scotland) ; Environmental conditions ; History ; 18th century
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Enlightenment in the Peat Moss -- PART ONE: A NEW WORLD IN THE NORTH -- 1 The Moral Geography of Scotland -- 2 Natural History and Civil Cameralism -- 3 Improving the Scottish Climate -- PART TWO: RIVAL ECOLOGIES -- 4 Alternate Highlands -- 5 Rival Ecologies of Global Commerce -- 6 Larch Autarky -- PART THREE: STATIONARY HIGHLANDS -- 7 Coal Exhaustion in 1789 -- 8 Overpopulation and Extirpation -- 9 Wasteland Island -- 10 "A Stationary Condition for Ever" -- Conclusion: The Ghosts of the Enlightenment -- Maps -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Illustrations.
Note:
Description based on print version record. Includes index
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