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1 online resource (443 p.) |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Copy-Texts -- General Introduction -- Part 1 Regulating Nature: The Environment and Policy in Nineteenth-Century Britain -- Chronology of the Environment and Policy in Nineteenth-Century Britain -- Volume II Part 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Public Health -- 1. The Staffordshire Collieries -- 2. Report on Sanitary Conditions -- 3. Journeys to England and Ireland -- 4. Condition of the Working Class in England -- 5. The Uncommercial Traveller -- 6. On the Pollution of the Rivers of the Kingdom |
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7. Alkali Act Amendment Bill -- 8. On Smoke Abatement -- 1.2 Animal Cruelty -- 9. The Cry of Nature. Or, an Appeal to Mercy and Justice on Behalf of the Persecuted Animals -- 10. Cruelty to Animals -- 11. Bear Baiting and Other Cruel Sports -- 12. Principles of Political Economy (Volume 2) -- 13. Cruelty to Animals Act -- 14. Fragments in Defence of Animals, and Essays on Morals, Soul, and Future State -- 15. Prevention of Cruelty to Wild Animals Bill -- 16. The Moral Aspects of Vivisection -- 17. 'A Plea for the Sea Birds' -- 18. A Year With the Birds -- 19. Bird News |
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20. Importation of Plumage Prohibition Bill -- 1.3 The Commons -- 21. The History of the Highland Clearances -- 22. Mr Rennie's Drainage of the Lincoln and Cambridge Fens -- 23. English Commons and Forests. The Story of the Battle During the Last Thirty Years for Public Rights Over the Commons and Forests of England and Wales -- 24. Access to Mountains -- 25. Commons -- References -- Part 2 Conquering Nature: The Environment in British Imperialism and Foreign Policy in the Nineteenth Century -- Chronology of the Environment in British Imperialism and Foreign Policy in the Nineteenth Century |
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Volume II Part 2 Introduction -- 2.1 Imperial Sustainability -- 26. A Few Hints on Foreign and Home Colonization -- 27. On the Scope and Methods of Geography -- 28. The Irish Crisis -- 29. 'The Famine Campaign in Southern India, Madras and Bombay Presidencies and Province of Mysore' -- 30. An Account of the State of Agriculture and Grazing in New South Wales: Including Observations on the Soils and General Appearance of the Country -- 31. The Scinde Railway and Its Relations to the Euphrates Valley and Other Routes to India |
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32. Further Despatches from the Secretary of State to the Governor of New Zealand. Presented to Both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency -- 33. Speech to the Burma Game Preservation Association, Rangoon -- 34. An Account of the Arctic Regions -- 35. Central Government Act: The Oriental Gas Company -- 2.2 Military Ecocide -- 36. Proclamation to the People of Portugal -- 37. An Account of the Interior of Ceylon and of Its Inhabitants With Travels in That Island -- 38. Letter to Parents -- 39. Letter to the Hon. Colonel Haultain |
| Summary |
This volume of archival source material chronicles British environmental politics between 1789 and 1914. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students of environmental and political history |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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40. Despatches Received by the Admiralty Regarding the Murder in Malay of James Birch |
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Environmental policy.
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environmental policy.
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Environmental policy.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000937237 |
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1000937232 |
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