Exploring environmental history selected essays /

• Main Author: Smout, T. C.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2009.
• Subjects: Human ecology > History.; Human ecology > History. > Scotland; Human ecology.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: ebrary; View fulltext via EzAccess; MyiLibrary

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 S...

Table of Contents:

• The Environmental Historiography of Britain
• The Highlands and the Roots of Green Consciousness, 1750-1990
• Exploiting Scottish Semi-Natural Woods, 1600-1850
• The Pinewoods and Human Use, 1600-1900
• The Atlantic Oakwoods as a Commercial Crop in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
• Bogs and People in Scotland Since 1600
• Energy Rich, Energy Poor: Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, 1600-1800
• The Improvers and the Scottish Environment: Soils, Bogs and Woods
• Trees as Historic Landscapes: from Wallace's Oak to Reforesting Scotland
• The Alien Species in Twentieth-Century Britain: Inventing a New Vermin
• Modern Agriculture and the Decline of British Biodiversity
• History, Nature and Culture in British Nature Conservation
• Environmental Consciousness.