Turbulent Foresters - A Landscape Biography of Ashdown Forest

A richly detailed history of Ashdown Forest -- home of Winnie-the-Pooh.

List of contents

List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Editorial conventions

1. Introduction: a forest landscape
2. The Natural Capital of Ashdown
3. Ashdown before the Forest
4. Ashdown emerges and the Landscape fills up, 1086-1485
5. Society and Community on Ashdown Forest, 1500-1800
6. Ashdown's forest economy
7. Threats to Ashdown Forest
8. Victorian Ashdown: a changing setting for an escalating conflict
9. The Ashdown Forest Dispute
10. The early years of formal conservation, 1885-1914
11. Ashdown in War and Peace, 1914-1945
12. Ashdown's historic present from 1945
13. Forest conflicts: a conclusion

Glossary
Ashdown Forest: select Bibliography
Index

About the author

Brian Short is an emeritus professor of Historical Geography at the University of Sussex. He has a longstanding interest in the rural landscape history and society of South-East England.

Summary

A richly detailed history of Ashdown Forest -- home of Winnie-the-Pooh.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Short, Brian (Royalty Account) Short
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781783277070
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-707-0
• No. of pages: 486
• Dimensions: 173 mm x 241 mm x 38 mm
• Weight: 1315 g
• Series: Garden and Landscape History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories