Exploring Environmental History
Selected Essays
1st Edition
Published on 12. May 2009
257 pages
978-0-7486-3514-6 (ISBN)
Description
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 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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Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Environmental Historiography of Britain
- Chapter 2 The Highlands and the Roots of Green Consciousness, 1750-1990
- Chapter 3 Exploiting Scottish Semi-Natural Woods, 1600-1850
- Chapter 4 The Pinewoods and Human Use, 1600-1900
- Chapter 5 The Atlantic Oakwoods as a Commercial Crop in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- Chapter 6 Bogs and People in Scotland Since 1600
- Chapter 7 Energy Rich, Energy Poor: Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, 1600-1800
- Chapter 8 The Improvers and the Scottish Environment: Soils, Bogs and Woods
- Chapter 9 Trees as Historic Landscapes: from Wallace's Oak to Reforesting Scotland
- Chapter 10 The Alien Species in Twentieth-Century Britain: Inventing a New Vermin
- Chapter 11 Modern Agriculture and the Decline of British Biodiversity
- Chapter 12 History, Nature and Culture in British Nature Conservation
- Chapter 13 Environmental Consciousness
- Select Bibliography
- Index
