An Environmental History of Great Britain

by Ian Simmons

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748612831
• ISBN13: 9780748612833
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher