| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 342 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-332) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Innovation and Continuity -- 2. Cultural Landscape -- 3. Lowland Fields -- 4. Upland Moors -- 5. Woods and Trees -- 6. Cutting New Channels -- 7. Holes -- 8. Heaps -- 9. City in the Country -- 10. Greening the City -- 11. Environment of Leisure -- 12. Hungry Ocean. |
| Summary |
"In 1844 William Wordsworth, his beloved Lake District threatened by the invasion of a railroad, was moved to ask, "Is then no nook of English ground secure / From rash assault?" Nineteenth-century Britain led the world in technological innovation and urbanization, and unprecedented population growth contributed as well to the "assault" on Victorian countrysides. Yet James Winter finds that, despite revolutionary changes that easily could have resulted in long-term, widespread ecological damage, the British environment was by and large spared such a fate." "Winter's illumination of Victorian attitudes toward the exploitation of natural resources offers a valuable preamble to ongoing discussions of human intervention in the environment."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Human ecology. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Great Britain.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Winter, James H., 1925- Secure from rash assault. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1999 0520216091 (DLC) 98043970 (OCoLC)39981588 |
| ISBN |
9780520927209 (electronic book) |
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0520927206 (electronic book) |
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0585079463 (electronic book) |
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9780585079462 (electronic book) |
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9780520216099 (alkaline paper) |
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0520216091 (alkaline paper) |
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0520216091 (alkaline paper) |
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