Enlightenment's Frontier: The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism
(Part of the The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History Series)
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Enlightenment's Frontier is the first book to investigate the environmental roots of the Scottish Enlightenment. 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 eighteenth century. The Highlands offered a vast outdoor laboratory for rival liberal...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0300162545
ISBN13:9780300162547
Release Date:June 2013
Publisher:Yale University Press
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.50 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.5" x 9.4"
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