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100	1		_aSimmons, I. G. _q(Ian Gordon), _d1937- _9109069
245	1	3	_aAn environmental history of Great Britain : _bfrom 10,000 years ago to the present / _cI.G. Simmons.
260			_aEdinburgh : _bEdinburgh University Press, _cc2001.
300			_axi, 419 p. : _bill., maps ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	8		_aMachine 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	_aNature _xEffect of human beings on _zGreat Britain _xHistory. _9356351
650		0	_aHuman geography _zGreat Britain _xHistory. _9356352
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