03243nam 2200685Ia 450 991114585410332120251117062852.00-7486-5137-31-282-13652-697866121365280-7486-3514-910.1515/9780748635146(CKB)1000000000767510(EBL)448751(OCoLC)430828579(SSID)ssj0000152302(PQKBManifestationID)11147328(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000152302(PQKBWorkID)10339816(PQKB)10134157(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055517(Au-PeEL)EBL448751(CaPaEBR)ebr10309065(CaONFJC)MIL213652(DE-B1597)614421(DE-B1597)9780748635146(MiAaPQ)EBC448751(OCoLC)1302162506(UkBuK)23962(EXLCZ)99100000000076751020090226d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrExploring environmental history selected essays /T.C. Smout1st ed.Edinburgh University Press20051 online resource (257 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7486-3513-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-237) and index.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, 1600-1800Chapter 8 The Improvers and the Scottish Environment: Soils, Bogs and WoodsChapter 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; IndexThis 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.Human ecologyHistoryHuman ecologyScotlandHistoryHuman ecologyHistory.Human ecologyHistory.333.7333.709Smout T. C(T. Christopher)135229MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911145854103321Exploring environmental history4841769UNINA