Secure from rash assault : sustaining the Victorian environment

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Secure from rash assault : sustaining the Victorian environment

James Winter

University of California Press, c1999

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-332) and index

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Nineteenth-century Britain led the world in technological innovation and urbanization, and unprecedented population growth contributed as well to the "rash assault," to quote Wordworth, on Victorian countrysides. Yet James Winter finds that the British environment was generally spared widespread ecological damage. Drawing from a variety of sources and disciplines, Winter focuses on human intervention as it not only destroyed but also preserved the physical environment. Industrial blight could be contained, he says, because of Britain's capacity to import resources from elsewhere, the conservative effect of the estate system, and certain intrinsic limitations of steam engines. The rash assault was further blunted by traditional agricultural practices, preservation of forests, and a growing recreation industry that favoured beloved landscapes. Winter's illumination of Victorian attitudes toward the exploitation of natural resources offers a preamble to ongoing discussions of human intervention in the environment.

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Preface Introduction 1. Innovation and Continuity 2. The Cultural Landscape 3. Lowland Fields 4. Upland Moors 5. Woods and Trees 6. Cutting New Channels 7. Holes 8. Heaps 9. The City in the Country 10. Greening the City 11. The Environment of Leisure 12. The Hungry Ocean Conclusion

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