Enlightenment's frontier : the Scottish Highlands and the origins of environmentalism /: the Scottish Highlands and the origins of environmentalism. ([2013])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Enlightenment's frontier : the Scottish Highlands and the origins of environmentalism /: the Scottish Highlands and the origins of environmentalism. ([2013])
- Main Title:
- Enlightenment's frontier : the Scottish Highlands and the origins of environmentalism
- Further Information:
- Note: Fredrik Albritton Jonsson.
- Authors:
- Jonsson, Fredrik Albritton, 1972-
- 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.
- Publisher Details:
- New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Copyright Date:
- 2013
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (ix, 344 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates), illustrations, maps
- Subjects:
- 304.209411/509033
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
Scotland
Scotland -- Highlands
Schottland
History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780300163742
0300163746 - Related ISBNs:
- 9780300162547
0300162545 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.775459
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