ABSTRACT

This volume of archival source material chronicles British environmental politics between 1789 and 1914. This text examines scientific discoveries during this period and the result of these findings on the political environment, bringing the public's attention to public health issues such as acid rain and river pollution. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students of environmental and political history.

part 1|197 pages

Discovering Nature

chapter |8 pages

Volume I Part 1 Introduction

chapter 1.1|61 pages

Biodiversity Decline

chapter 2|4 pages

Letter to Joseph Banks

chapter 5|6 pages

Principles of Geology

chapter 6|9 pages

Origin of the Species

chapter 1.3|54 pages

Pollution

chapter 22|6 pages

‘Pollution of Glamorganshire Rivers’

part 2|199 pages

Romanticizing Nature

chapter |7 pages

Volume I Part 2 Introduction

chapter 2.1|86 pages

Aesthetes and Conservation

chapter 26|4 pages

‘The Raven’

chapter 27|8 pages

The Excursion

chapter 28|10 pages

‘In Memoriam A.H.H.’

chapter 30|7 pages

Silas Marner

chapter 32|5 pages

‘Remembrances’

chapter 33|8 pages

Our Common Land

chapter 34|6 pages

Black Beauty

chapter 35|6 pages

The Waters of Edera

chapter 36|7 pages

My Days and Dreams

chapter 37|6 pages

My First Summer in the Sierra

chapter 2.2|56 pages

Conserving Nature and the Aristocracy

chapter 38|5 pages

Emma

chapter 39|7 pages

Rural Rides

chapter 40|6 pages

Sybil

chapter 41|7 pages

Signs of the Times

chapter 42|7 pages

‘The Dorsetshire Labourer’