Enlightenment's frontier : the Scottish Highlands and the origins of environmentalism /

"This is the first book to explore the environmental foundation of the Scottish Enlightenment. Such a perspective sheds new light on one of the great problems of social theory: What are the causes and limits of economic development? The first part of the book recounts how natural historians tur...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jonsson, Fredrik Albritton, 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2013]
Series:Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Environmentalism > Scotland > History > 18th century.
Enlightenment > Scotland.
Environnementalisme > Écosse > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Siècle des Lumières > Écosse.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Ecology
Enlightenment
Environmentalism
Intellectual life
Umwelt
Aufklärung
Scotland > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Highlands (Scotland) > Environmental conditions > History > 18th century.
Écosse > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siècle.
Highlands (Écosse) > Conditions environnementales > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Scotland
Scotland > Highlands
Schottland
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : The Enlightenment in the peat moss
  • The moral geography of Scotland
  • Natural history and civil cameralism
  • Improving the Scottish climate
  • Alternate Highlands
  • Rival ecologies of global commerce
  • Larch autarky
  • Coal exhaustion in 1789
  • Overpopulation and extirpation
  • Wasteland Island
  • "A stationary condition for ever"
  • Conclusion : the ghosts of the Enlightenment.

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