Exploring environmental history : selected essays / T.C. Smout.

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2009], ©2009.

vii, 248 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm

Includes select bibliography (p. 233-237) and index.

The environmental historiography of Britain -- The highlands and the roots of green consciousness, 1750-1990 -- Exploiting Scottish semi-natural woods, 1600-1850 -- The pinewoods and human use, 1600-1900 -- The Atlantic oakwoods as a commercial crop in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Bogs and people in Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, 1600-1800 -- The improvers and the Scottish environment: soils, bogs and woods -- Trees as historic landscapes: from Wallace's oak to reforesting Scotland -- The alien species in twentieth-century Britain: inventing a new vermin -- Modern agriculture and the decline of British biodiversity -- History, nature and culture in British nature conservation -- Environmental consciousness.