An Environmental History of Wildlife in England 1650-1950

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(^54) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england thirty species, including other fairly innocuous ones like the kingfisher, ...

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ChapTer four The social contexts of wildlife, c.1650–1750 The nature of towns So far I have discussed the seventeenth and early ...

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The soCial C onTeXTs of Wildlife, C.1650–1750^61 Urban conditions also favoured particular kinds of plant. Few species could fin ...

(^62) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england zinc, barium, chromium, copper and fluorspar were mined.^11 These, as we s ...

The soCial C onTeXTs of Wildlife, C.1650–1750^63 from the surrounding landscape. Avenues were thus commonly planted with beech, ...

(^64) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england by Elizabeth (‘Bess’) of Hardwick and her husbands in the 1570s. A deer pa ...

The soCial C onTeXTs of Wildlife, C.1650–1750^65 economic propositions in the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. ...

(^66) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england wetlands and coastal areas in the west of England. Daniel Defoe remarked o ...

The soCial C onTeXTs of Wildlife, C.1650–1750^67 the establishment of warrens aroused strong opposition from local people. In 17 ...

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The soCial C onTeXTs of Wildlife, C.1650–1750^71 There sleeps Titania sometime of the night, Lull’d in these flowers with dances ...