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Secure From Rash Assault - Sustaining the Victorian Environment

English · Paperback / Softback

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"This book is both learned and readable, at once an environmental, economic, and technological history. Actually about the whole length and breadth of Britain, it is never so technical that a lay reader gets lost and never so accommodating that it flattens the complexities of his subjects."—Michael Dintenfass, author of The Decline of Industrial Britain 1870-1980

List of contents

Preface

Introduction

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

Conclusion

About the author

James Winter is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of British Columbia and author of London's Teeming Streets, 1830-1914 (1993).

Summary

Drawing from a variety of sources and disciplines, this text focuses on human intervention as it not only destroyed, but also preserved the physical environment of 19th-century Britain - a time of urbanization, technological innovation and unprecedented population growth.

Product details

Authors James Winter, James H. Winter, Winter James
Publisher University Of California Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 25.02.2002
 
EAN 9780520229303
ISBN 978-0-520-22930-3
No. of pages 353
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology
Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics

History, Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General

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