An Environmental History of Wildlife in England 1650-1950

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An Environmental History of Wildlife in England, 1650– Tom Williamson LONDON • NEW DELHI • NEW YORK • SYDNEY ...

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ConTenTs Acknowledgements vi - 1 Setting the scene: The nature of nature List of Figures vii - Woodland and waste 2 Seven ...

aCknoWledgemenTs This has not been an easy book to research or write, for it has involved excursions into fields of knowledge – ...

lisT of figures Figure 1 The principal landscape regions of England 5 Figure 2 Early-modern farming regions 8 Figure 3 The medie ...

viii lisT of figures Figure 23 The Blickling estate in north Norfolk 118 Figure 24 The elimination of the pine marten and poleca ...

ChapTer one Setting the scene: The nature of nature The natural landscape? This book discusses the history of wildlife in Englan ...

(^2) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england call succession. Plants colonized in a more or less predictable sequence, e ...

seTTing T he sCene: The naTure of naTure^3 they eventually shaded out the protective thorns, but by this time they were relative ...

(^4) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england domestication of livestock, was brought by immigrants from Europe, and perh ...

seTTing T he sCene: The naTure of naTure^5 cultivated and populous lowlands. But there was also, within the lowlands, a distinct ...

(^6) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england scholars. Here settlement was more dispersed in character, with scattered f ...

seTTing T he sCene: The naTure of naTure^7 between habitat and ownership were often close: coppiced woodland was thus always a p ...

(^8) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england farming and biodiversity The spread of farmed landscapes from early prehist ...

seTTing T he sCene: The naTure of naTure^9 the beaver survived into Anglo-Saxon times it had also probably gone by the time of t ...

(^10) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england became real generalists, able to live on most kinds of farm and indeed in ...

seTTing T he sCene: The naTure of naTure^11 but of a whole collection of related organisms. A high proportion of the spiders, be ...