Comprehensive historical analysis of Victorian environmental policies and practices
Focuses on both destruction and preservation of the British environment
Draws from diverse disciplines and sources for a multidimensional perspective
Offers insights into Victorian attitudes toward natural resources
New paperback edition for accessible reading
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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 Wordsworth, on Victorian countrysides. Yet James Winter finds that the British environment was generally spared widespread ecological damage.