Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 210 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents |
Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- List of figures -- Introduction -- 1. Use and delight: attitudes to nature since 1600 -- 2. Woods of imagination and reality -- 3. Making and using the soil -- 4. Commanding the waters -- 5. The fragile hill -- 6. The quarrel over the countryside -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index |
Summary |
This work deals with four centuries of conflict over some of the most valued landscapes in Europe. Based on a series of lectures given by the author at Oxford University in 1999, it combines social and cultural history with ecology and geography |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-200) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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T.C. Smout is Historiographer Royal at the University of St Andrews |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record; online resource viewed April 21, 2021 |
Subject |
Land use, Rural -- Scotland -- History
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Land use, Rural -- Environmental aspects -- Scotland
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NATURE -- Ecology.
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Ecology
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Land use, Rural
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Land use, Rural -- Environmental aspects
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Milieu.
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SUBJECT |
Scotland -- Environmental conditions -- History
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England, Northern -- Environmental conditions -- History
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Subject |
Northern England
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Scotland
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2001326809 |
ISBN |
9781474472715 |
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1474472710 |
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