Secure from Rash Assault: Sustaining the Victorian Environment

by James Winter

Book Overview

Nineteenth-century Britain led the world in technological innovation and urbanization, and unprecedented population growth contributed as well to the "rash assault," to quote Wordsworth, on Victorian countrysides. Yet James Winter finds that the British environment was generally spared widespread ecological damage.

Drawing from a remarkable variety of sources and disciplines, Winter focuses on human intervention as it not only destroyed but...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520229304
• ISBN13: 9780520229303
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 353 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.6"