Exploring Environmental History: Selected Essays

T. C. Smout

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2009

Exploring Environmental History

Selected Essays

T. C. Smout

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748635146

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About this book

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, though often focussed on post-1600 Scotland, by no means restricted to that area.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 The Environmental Historiography of Britain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Chapter 2 The Highlands and the Roots of Green Consciousness, 1750–1990 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Chapter 3 Exploiting Scottish Semi-Natural Woods, 1600–1850 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Chapter 4 The Pinewoods and Human Use, 1600–1900 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Chapter 5 The Atlantic Oakwoods as a Commercial Crop in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Chapter 6 Bogs and People in Scotland Since 1600 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Chapter 7 Energy Rich, Energy Poor: Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, 1600–1800 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Chapter 8 The Improvers and the Scottish Environment: Soils, Bogs and Woods Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Chapter 9 Trees as Historic Landscapes: from Wallace’s Oak to Reforesting Scotland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Chapter 10 The Alien Species in Twentieth-Century Britain: Inventing a New Vermin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Chapter 11 Modern Agriculture and the Decline of British Biodiversity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Chapter 12 History, Nature and Culture in British Nature Conservation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Chapter 13 Environmental Consciousness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Select Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Illustrations
- Other: 13 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Environmental Studies

eBook

Published: May 12, 2009
ISBN: 9780748635146