The Women Who Saved the English Countryside /
A vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable women In Britain today, a mosaic of regulations protects the natural environment and guarantees public access to green spaces. But this was not always so. Over the last 150 years, a...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
[2022]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Maps
- Introduction: The Four
- Octavia Hill: Gathering in the Givers
- Beatrix Potter: A Farm of One's Own
- Pauline Dower: 'Inconspicuous Good'
- Sylvia Sayer: Segregating Dartmoor
- Epilogue: Fifty Years On
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Index