Enlightenment's frontier : the Scottish Highlands and the origins of environmentalism /: the Scottish Highlands and the origins of environmentalism. ([2013])

• Record Type: Book
• 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.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.