Peat and Peat Cutting

Informationen zum Autor Dr Ian D Rotherham is Reader and Director of the Tourism and Environmental Change Research Unit at Sheffield Hallam University. Klappentext For thousands of years peat was the main fuel that warmed houses all over the British Isles! and the mark of the peat cutter is written deep in the landscape. This book celebrates a cultural history that extended from the Iron Age to the twentieth century. It tells the story of the use of peat for fuel in the British Isles. An illustrated history of the use of peat for fuel, and the peat cutting industry to which it gave rise Zusammenfassung For thousands of years peat was the main fuel that that warmed houses all over the British Isles, and the mark of the peat cutter is written deep in the landscape. This book is a celebration of a cultural history that extended from the Iron Age to the twentieth century. It tells the story of the use of peat for fuel in the British Isles, and the people who cut it. It also examines the methods of cutting, the tools that were used, and the organization of cutting. It chronicles the beginning of commercial extraction and the exhaustion of this precious resource. Inhaltsverzeichnis ?Preface /Introduction /Uses of Peat and Peatlands /How Peat was Worked /The Enclosures and Fuel Allotments /Other Uses of Peat /Conclusions /References and Bibliography /Index

Product details

• Authors: Ian Rotherham, Ian D. Rotherham, Rotherham Ian
• Publisher: SHIRE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.04.2009
• EAN: 9780747807056
• ISBN: 978-0-7478-0705-6
• No. of pages: 64
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 200 mm x 8 mm
• Series: Shire Library; Shire Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; European History, HISTORY / Social History, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / Fossil Fuels, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, Economic Geology