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An Environmental History of Great Britain
Engelsk Paperback
An Environmental History of Great Britain
Engelsk Paperback

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This is a history of the environment of England, Wales and Scotland, and of the interactions of people, place and nature since the last ice sheet withdrew some ten thousand years ago. It is concerned with the changing cultures (in the full anthropological sense) of the peoples inhabiting Britain as well as with the environment they transformed, exploited, abused and cherished. As the author points out, every culture in Britain has had to acknowledge its placement on a set of islands 50º N where any month of the year can be the wettest month of the year, where there are some long shallow estuaries and a few deep inlets, and where cereals do not reliably ripen 300 metres above sea-level. Cultural imagination cannot alter these realities, but it can variously view them as dangerous or picturesque, as economic or uneconomic. The book is a history of changing reflexivity in the interactions between people, culture, and nature.The book is structured as a chronological narrative. It is written with unusual
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
432
ISBN-13:
9780748612833
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0748612831
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
29 jun 2001
Længde:
26mm
Bredde:
244mm
Højde:
175mm
Forlag:
Edinburgh University Press
Oplagsdato:
29 jun 2001
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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