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Enlightenment's frontier : the Scottish Highlands and the origins of environmentalism

Jonsson, Fredrik Albritton, 1972-2013
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What was the place of the natural world in Adam Smith's famous defense of free trade? Fredrik Albritton Jonsson recovers the forgotten networks of improvers and natural historians that sought to transform the soil, plants, and climate of Scotland in the 18th century.
Main title:
Enlightenment's frontier : the Scottish Highlands and the origins of environmentalism / Fredrik Albritton Jonsson.
Author:
Jonsson, Fredrik Albritton, 1972-, author
Imprint:
New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, 2013.
Collation:
384 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 25 cm.
Series title:
Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
03001625459780300162547 (hbk)
Dewey class:
304.2'09411'09033304.2
Language:
English
Subject:
Environmentalism -- Scotland -- History -- 18th centuryEnlightenment -- ScotlandScotland -- Intellectual life -- 18th centuryEnvironment and ecologyEnvironment and EcologyHighlands (Scotland) -- Environmental conditions -- History -- 18th century
BRN:
1605789
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