An Environmental History of Wildlife in England 1650-1950
(^112) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england uses up oxygen in the water, causing problems for fish. Many pondweeds an ...
The revoluTion in agriCulTure^113 Conclusion In a host of ways, the impact of the agricultural revolution and ‘high farming’ on ...
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ChapTer seven New roles for nature introduction The fate of England’s wildlife in the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ...
(^116) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england something almost independent of human activity. Vicesimus Knox in 1779 ty ...
neW roles for naTure^117 ‘poorly competitive, slow-growing and crippled plants often living outside their normal climate range’ ...
(^118) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england and sold, the rents and obligations attached to it simply passing to the ...
neW roles for naTure^119 owner of a property in effect a tenant for life, tied by a legal agreement which prevented sale of outl ...
(^120) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england in Wiltshire, and the two million planted at Holkham in Norfolk between 1 ...
neW roles for naTure^121 To those who plant for profit, and are thrusting every tree out of the way to make way for their favour ...
(^122) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england indicate.^36 At Congham in Norfolk, for example, the coppice was said to ...
neW roles for naTure^123 wandered off on to a neighbour’s land. John Byng, visiting Blenheim in 1787, noted ‘In various parts of ...
(^124) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england Estates vied with each other to maximize the amount of game which was sho ...
neW roles for naTure^125 as they were to game preservation per se. Recreational shooting included both the targeting of rare spe ...
(^126) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england peasant farms; and one dominated by grass rather than by arable. The form ...
neW roles for naTure^127 parks and gardens In the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as estates grew larger, and ...
(^128) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england the upper levels of society, defining the boundaries of the ‘polite’, mar ...
neW roles for naTure^129 of Special Scientific Interest, such as that at Eridge Park on the Kent/Sussex border. Parks also usual ...
(^130) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england designers like William Andrews Nesfield formal parterres of box became po ...
neW roles for naTure^131 Although the cultivation of new species was pioneered in the grounds of the wealthy, some were soon tak ...
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