Nature contested : environmental history in Scotland and Northern England since 1600 / T.C. Smout.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smout, T. C. (T. Christopher)

Contributor:

Smout, T. C. (Thomas Christopher), 1933-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land use, Rural--Scotland--History.

Land use, Rural.

Land use, Rural--Northern Ireland--History.

Land use, Rural--Environmental aspects--Scotland.

Land use, Rural--Environmental aspects--Northern Ireland.

Land use, Rural--Environmental aspects.

History.

Northern Ireland.

Scotland.

Physical Description:

xiii, 210 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2000]

Summary:

This book is about four centuries of conflict over some of the most valued landscapes in Europe. Combining social and cultural history with ecology and geography T. C. Smout has written one of the most profound, as well as one of the most entertaining works of environmental history ever published.

The highlands, islands and borders of Scotland, the Lake District and northern moors of England form a natural region, whose wildness has inspired some and oppressed others. The crags and moorlands have been both treasured for their beauty and biodiversity and reviled as unproductive deserts to be improved and reclaimed. The context between these two views of nature - conservation versus development; jobs versus birds; landscape versus forestry; use versus delight -- is at the centre of the book.

Notes:

Based on the Ford Lectures on British History at the University of Oxford in January and February 1999: "Use and delight: environmental history in northern Britain since 1600".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Related Work:

Smout, T. C. (Thomas Christopher), 1933- Use and delight.

ISBN:

0748614109

0748614117

OCLC:

44562473