Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Illustrations vii
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1 The Environmental Historiography of Britain 7
7. Chapter 2 The Highlands and the Roots of Green Consciousness, 1750–1990 21
8. Chapter 3 Exploiting Scottish Semi-Natural Woods, 1600–1850 53
9. Chapter 4 The Pinewoods and Human Use, 1600–1900 71
10. Chapter 5 The Atlantic Oakwoods as a Commercial Crop in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 87
11. Chapter 6 Bogs and People in Scotland Since 1600 99
12. Chapter 7 Energy Rich, Energy Poor: Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, 1600–1800 113
13. Chapter 8 The Improvers and the Scottish Environment: Soils, Bogs and Woods 135
14. Chapter 9 Trees as Historic Landscapes: from Wallace’s Oak to Reforesting Scotland 153
15. Chapter 10 The Alien Species in Twentieth-Century Britain: Inventing a New Vermin 169
16. Chapter 11 Modern Agriculture and the Decline of British Biodiversity 183
17. Chapter 12 History, Nature and Culture in British Nature Conservation 199
18. Chapter 13 Environmental Consciousness 217
19. Select Bibliography 233
20. Index 238