Exploring environmental history: selected essays

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Environmental Historiography of Britain -- Chapter 2 The Highlands and the Roots of Green Consciousness, 1750-1990 -- Chapter 3 Exploiting Scottish Semi-Natural Woods, 1600-1850 -- Chapter 4 The Pinewoods and Human Use, 1600-1900 -- Chapter 5 The Atlantic Oakwoods as a Commercial Crop in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- Chapter 6 Bogs and People in Scotland Since 1600 -- Chapter 7 Energy Rich, Energy Poor: Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, 1600-1800 -- Chapter 8 The Improvers and the Scottish Environment: Soils, Bogs and Woods -- Chapter 9 Trees as Historic Landscapes: from Wallace's Oak to Reforesting Scotland -- Chapter 10 The Alien Species in Twentieth-Century Britain: Inventing a New Vermin -- Chapter 11 Modern Agriculture and the Decline of British Biodiversity -- Chapter 12 History, Nature and Culture in British Nature Conservation -- Chapter 13 Environmental Consciousness -- Select Bibliography -- Index

This volume brings together the best of T.C. Smout's recent articles and contributions to books and journals on the topic of environmental history and offers them as a collection of 'explorations'. The author's interests are multi-faceted and, though often focussed on post-1600 Scotland, by no means restricted to that area