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04454cam a22002537a 4500 |
001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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12638909 |
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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010723s2001 stkab 001 0 eng |
015 ## - |
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GBA1-41876 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
074861284X |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
0748612831 (pbk.) |
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
System control number |
(Sirsi) u214940 |
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
Classification number |
304.20941 |
Edition number |
21 |
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
Classification number |
304.2/0941 |
Edition number |
21 |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Simmons, I. G. |
Fuller form of name |
(Ian Gordon), |
Dates associated with a name |
1937- |
9 (RLIN) |
109069 |
245 13 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
An environmental history of Great Britain : |
Remainder of title |
from 10,000 years ago to the present / |
Statement of responsibility, etc. |
I.G. Simmons. |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Edinburgh : |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Edinburgh University Press, |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
c2001. |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
xi, 419 p. : |
Other physical details |
ill., maps ; |
Dimensions |
25 cm. |
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
Formatted contents note |
Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION -- The purpose and scope of the book -- Nature and culture in the last 10,000 years -- Frameworks for the reader -- Links between economy and environment -- Committed history? -- The organisation of the material -- Chapter 2 HUNTER-GATHERERS AND FISHERFOLK: 10,000 TO 5000 BP -- Introduction: the beginning -- The current interglacial -- People and cultures -- Environment and culture -- The possible role of humans -- A summary of environmental change involving humans -- Into the agricultural era -- Chapter 3 SHAFTS OF SUNLIGHT: AGRICULTURALISTS -- Introduction: a very long duration -- Atmospheric changes: the climate -- Cultivated land and grasslands -- Relations with the woodlands -- The creation of new landforms -- Heaths and moorlands -- Industries -- Sacred space -- The social context -- Overview -- Chapter 4 CLOSED AND OPEN SYSTEMS, AD 550 TO AD 1700 -- Atmospheric changes: the climate -- Landform change -- Agriculture and grasslands -- Heaths, moors and mountains -- Woods and forests -- Fresh water and fresh-water wetlands -- Rural settlement -- Urban settlement -- Industry -- Pleasure and the environment -- Energy -- Sacred space -- Social context -- Connections: at home and abroad -- Sensibilities and attitudes to environment -- Chapter 5 BUILDING JERUSALEM: THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- The atmosphere -- Woods and forests -- Agriculture and grasslands -- Heaths, moors and mountains -- Sensibilities and attitudes to environment -- Fresh water and fresh-water wetlands -- Rural settlement -- Urban settlement -- Industry -- Energy -- The rich and their pleasure -- Sacred space -- The extension of the economy -- A century's trends -- Chapter 6 INDUSTRIAL GROWTH: MATERIAL EMPIRES, 1800-1914 -- The atmosphere -- Landforms -- Woods and forests -- Agriculture -- Heaths, moors and mountains -- Fresh water and fresh-water wetlands -- Fishing and whaling -- Energy -- Industry -- Urban settlement -- Rural settlement -- Leisure and pleasure -- Sacred space -- Wildlife and its protection -- International linkages -- Sensibilities and attitudes to environment -- A summary -- Chapter 7 'A FIT COUNTRY FOR HEROES, 1914-50 -- Climate -- Landforms -- Woods and forests -- Agriculture and grasslands -- Heaths, moors and mountains -- Fresh water and fresh-water wetlands -- Industry and wastes -- Urban settlement -- Rural settlement -- Military lands -- The coasts -- Fishing and whaling -- Energy -- Environmental protection and conservation -- Specialised leisure -- Sacred space -- Administration and planning -- Sensibilities and attitudes to environment -- The 1950s: legacies and foreshadowings -- Chapter 8 A POST-INDUSTRIAL WORLD, 1950 TO THE PRESENT -- Introduction: millennium fever -- Atmosphere and climate -- Landforms -- Fresh water -- Forestry and woodlands -- Agriculture -- Sacred space -- Fresh-water wetlands -- Heaths, moors and other commons -- Military lands -- Conservation and landscape protection -- Rural settlement: the rural economy -- The urban-industrial environment -- Land use: the overall picture -- Leisure and environment -- Coasts -- Fisheries in the post-industrial world -- Energy -- Population trends -- Administration -- The international scene -- Sensibilities and attitudes to environment -- Contradictions of the time -- Chapter 9 EXPERIENCE AND MEANING -- Introduction: many pasts -- Critical periods -- Cultural context -- Pathways -- Appendix 1 THE CHANGING ENVIRONMENT FROM THE AIR -- Notes -- Biographies -- Glossary -- A selected bibliography -- Index. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Nature |
General subdivision |
Effect of human beings on |
Geographic subdivision |
Great Britain |
General subdivision |
History. |
9 (RLIN) |
356351 |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Human geography |
Geographic subdivision |
Great Britain |
General subdivision |
History. |
9 (RLIN) |
356352 |