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An Environmental History of Great Britain /
This is a history of the environment of England, Wales and Scotland, and of the interactions of people, place and nature since the last ice sheet withdrew some ten thousand years ago. It is concerned with the changing cultures (in the full anthropological sense) of the peoples inhabiting Britain as...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Hunter-Gatherings and Fisherfolk: 10,000 to 5000 BP
- Chapter 3. Shafts of Sunlight: Agriculturalists
- Chapter 4. Closed and Open Systems, AD 550 To AD 1700
- Chapter 5. Building Jerusalem: The Eighteen Century
- Chapter 6. Industrial Growth: Material Empires, 1800-1914
- Chapter 7. 'A Fit Country for Heroes', 1914-50
- Chapter 8. A Post-industrial World, 1950 to the Present
- Chapter 9. Experience and Meaning
- Appendix 1. The Changing Environment From the Air
- Notes
- Biographies
- Glossary
- A Selected Bibliography
- Index