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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Environmental Historiography of Britain -- Chapter 2 The Highlands and the Roots of Green Consciousness, 1750-1990 -- Chapter 3 Exploiting Scottish Semi-Natural Woods, 1600-1850 -- Chapter 4 The Pinewoods and Human Use, 1600-1900 -- Chapter 5 The Atlantic Oakwoods as a Commercial Crop in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- Chapter 6 Bogs and People in Scotland Since 1600 -- Chapter 7 Energy Rich, Energy Poor: Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, 1600-1800 -- Chapter 8 The Improvers and the Scottish Environment: Soils, Bogs and Woods -- Chapter 9 Trees as Historic Landscapes: from Wallace's Oak to Reforesting Scotland -- Chapter 10 The Alien Species in Twentieth-Century Britain: Inventing a New Vermin -- Chapter 11 Modern Agriculture and the Decline of British Biodiversity -- Chapter 12 History, Nature and Culture in British Nature Conservation -- Chapter 13 Environmental Consciousness -- Select Bibliography -- Index

This volume, newly available in paperback, brings together the best of T.C. Smout's recent articles and contributions to books and journals on the topic of environmental history and offers them as a collection of 'explorations'. The author's interests are multi-faceted and, though often focussed on post-1600 Scotland, by no means restricted to that area.

Kingsbarns harbour was constructed in the nineteenth century primarily to facilitate the movement of agricultural goods. The first investment was made by the land-owner but gradually allowed to deteriorate. The second was made by a local farmer to facilitate the shipping of potatoes. It failed ultimately not so much because of poor engineering but because it was displaced by the completion of the railway round the coast of Fife, and was then allowed to fall into disrepair. Its mode of construction, with stones placed vertically, was not archaic as is sometimes supposed, but was common in Victorian harbour construction as an alternative to using blocks placed horizontally.