| Description |
1 online resource (210 pages) |
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Routledge Environmental Humanities |
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Routledge environmental humanities.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: ruling 'climates' in the early modern world; 1 Climate, travel and colonialism in the early modern world; 2 Jean Bodin and the idea of anachorism; 3 Marshes as microclimates: governing with the environment in early modern France; 4 Mastering north-east England's 'River of Tine': efforts to manage a river's flow, functions and form, 1529-c.1800; 5 'Take plow and spade, build and plant and make the wasteland fruitful': Gerrard Winstanley and the importance of labour in governing the earth |
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6 Winter and discontent in early modern England7 "A considerable change of climate": glacial retreat and British policy in the early-nineteenth-century Arctic; 8 'Vast factories of febrile poison': wetlands, drainage, and the fate of American climates, 1750-1850; Bibliography; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Morgan, John
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| ISBN |
9781317200284 |
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1317200284 |
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