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100 1  Williamson, Tom,|d1955-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       names/n83329038|eauthor. 
245 13 An environmental history of wildlife in England, 1650-1950
       /|cby Tom Williamson. 
264  1 London :|bBloomsbury Academic,|c2013. 
300    1 online resource (viii, 281 pages .) 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
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504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; 
       List of Figures; Chapter one Setting the scene: The nature
       of nature; The natural landscape?; Farming regions; 
       Farming and biodiversity; Indigenous, exotic and 
       naturalized; Hunting and 'intermediate exploitation'.; 
       Conclusion; Chapter two Seventeenth-century environments: 
       Woodland and waste; Introduction; Woodland; Heaths and 
       moors; Common pastures; Wetlands; The management of 
       commons; Conclusion; Chapter three Seventeenth-century 
       environments: Farmland; Meadows and pastures; Fields: 
       Woodland and Champion; Hedges and farmland trees. 
505 8  Village and farmsteadThe distribution of fauna; 
       Conclusion; Chapter four The social contexts of wildlife, 
       c.1650-1750; The nature of towns; Elite landscapes; Parks,
       warrens, and decoys; Hunting; Attitudes to wildlife; 
       Conclusion; Chapter five The industrial revolution; Two 
       'revolutions'?; Industry and wildlife; New habitats: 
       Derelict land and waste tips; New habitats: Canals and 
       railways; The impact of coal use; Conclusion; Chapter six 
       The revolution in agriculture; The character of the 
       'agricultural revolution'; Reclaiming the 'wastes': Downs,
       moors and heaths; Wetlands destroyed. 
505 8  New fields and hedgesThe pattern of farming; The 
       environment of 'high farming'; Conclusion; Chapter seven 
       New roles for nature; Introduction; The 'great 
       replanting'; Hunting and shooting; Parks and gardens; 
       Nature studied and collected; Conclusion; Chapter eight 
       Wildlife in depression, c.1870-1940; Depression and its 
       consequences; Benign neglect?; Dereliction and 
       abandonment; Great estates: Game preservation and exotic 
       fauna; Landscapes of diversification; Protecting nature; 
       Conclusion; Chapter nine New urban environments, c.1860-
       1950; Industry and pollution. 
520    While few detailed surveys of fauna or flora exist in 
       England from the period before the nineteenth century, it 
       is possible to combine the evidence of historical sources 
       (ranging from game books, diaries, churchwardens' accounts
       and even folk songs) and our wider knowledge of past land 
       use and landscape, with contemporary analyses made by 
       modern natural scientists, in order to model the situation
       at various times and places in the more remote past. This 
       timely volume encompasses both rural and urban 
       environments from 1650 to the mid-twentieth century, 
       drawing on a wide variety of social, histo. 
588 0  Print version record. 
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