Secure from rash assault : sustaining the Victorian environment /

"In 1844 William Wordsworth, his beloved Lake District threatened by the invasion of a railroad, was moved to ask, "Is then no nook of English ground secure / From rash assault?" Nineteenth-century Britain led the world in technological innovation and urbanization, and unprecedented p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Winter, James H., 1925-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1999.
Temas:
1800-1899
Human ecology > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Great Britain.
Êtres humains > Influence sur la nature > Grande-Bretagne.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
HISTORY / Europe / General
Human ecology
Nature > Effect of human beings on
Great Britain
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Innovation and Continuity
  • 2. The Cultural Landscape
  • 3. Lowland Fields
  • 4. Upland Moors
  • 5. Woods and Trees
  • 6. Cutting New Channels
  • 7. Holes
  • 8. Heaps
  • 9. The City in the Country
  • 10. Greening the City
  • 11. The Environment of Leisure
  • 12. The Hungry Ocean.

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