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Author Smout, T. C. (T. Christopher)

Title Nature contested : environmental history in Scotland and Northern England since 1600 / T.C. Smout
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2000

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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
T.C. Smout is Historiographer Royal at the University of St Andrews
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Print version record; online resource viewed April 21, 2021
Subject Land use, Rural -- Scotland -- History
Land use, Rural -- Environmental aspects -- Scotland
NATURE -- Ecology.
Ecology
Land use, Rural
Land use, Rural -- Environmental aspects
Milieu.
SUBJECT Scotland -- Environmental conditions -- History
England, Northern -- Environmental conditions -- History
Subject Northern England
Scotland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2001326809
ISBN 9781474472715
1474472710