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Enlightenment's frontier : the Scottish Highlands and the origins of environmentalism
Title
Enlightenment's frontier : the Scottish Highlands and the origins of environmentalism / Fredrik Jonsson.
ISBN
9780300163742 (ebook) :
Publication
New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, 2013.
Physical Description
1 online resource : maps (black and white).
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 11, 2013).
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Summary
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.
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University press scholarship online.
Yale scholarship online.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 23, 2015
Series
The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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