LEADER 03119nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910454768203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-7486-5137-3 010 $a1-282-13652-6 010 $a9786612136528 010 $a0-7486-3514-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000767510 035 $a(EBL)448751 035 $a(OCoLC)430828579 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000152302 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11147328 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000152302 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10339816 035 $a(PQKB)10134157 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055517 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC448751 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL448751 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10309065 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL213652 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000767510 100 $a20090226d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aExploring environmental history$b[electronic resource] $eselected essays /$fT.C. Smout 210 $aEdinburgh $cEdinburgh University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7486-3513-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 233-237) and index. 327 $aCopyright; 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 327 $aChapter 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; Index 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aHuman ecology$xHistory 606 $aHuman ecology$zScotland$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHuman ecology$xHistory. 615 0$aHuman ecology$xHistory. 676 $a333.7 676 $a333.709 700 $aSmout$b T. C$g(T. Christopher)$0135229 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454768203321 996 $aExploring environmental history$91950970 997 $aUNINA