An environmental history of Great Britain : from 10,000 years ago to the present /

Main Author: Simmons, I. G. 1937-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2001.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Hunter-gatherers and fisherfolk: 10,000 to 5000 BP
  • Shafts of light: agriculturalists
  • Closed and open systems, AD 550 to AD 1700
  • Building Jerusalem: the Eighteenth Century
  • Industrial growth: material empires, 1800-1914
  • 'A fit country for heroes', 1914-50
  • A post-industrial world, 1950 to the present
  • Experience and meaning
  • Appendix 1: The changing environment from the air.