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Silent fields : the long decline of a nation's wildlife /

Since time immemorial mankind has taken it upon himself to wage war against nature -- against those species of birds and mammals which he believes conflict with his livelihood. This remarkable book documents the history of that battle in England and Wales from the Middle Ages, shedding a new light o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lovegrove, Roger
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction; 1. Lost animals: early eliminations by Man; 2. The social background to persecution; 3. To kill a Rat or catch a Kite: methods of control; 4. Killing in Scotland; 5. In on the Act
  • searching the record; 6. Birds
  • individual species accounts; 7. Mammals
  • individual species accounts; 8. Local patterns of persecution: England and Wales; 9. The return of the natives; 10. Modern control
  • legal and illegal; 11. Vermin control and wildlife management: where next?; Appendix 1: Summary table of vermin payments extracted from churchwardens' accounts.