Short "Turbulent Foresters"

A Landscape Biography of Ashdown Forest
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-80010-573-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 13, 486 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm

Reihe: Garden and Landscape History

A richly detailed history of Ashdown Forest -- home of Winnie-the-Pooh.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Short, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Editorial conventions

1. Introduction: a forest landscape
2. The Natural Capital of Ashdown
3. Ashdown before the Forest
4. Ashdown emerges and the Landscape fills up, 1086-1485
5. Society and Community on Ashdown Forest, 1500-1800
6. Ashdown's forest economy
7. Threats to Ashdown Forest
8. Victorian Ashdown: a changing setting for an escalating conflict
9. The Ashdown Forest Dispute
10. The early years of formal conservation, 1885-1914
11. Ashdown in War and Peace, 1914-1945
12. Ashdown's historic present from 1945
13. Forest conflicts: a conclusion

Glossary
Ashdown Forest: select Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Short Brian:
Brian Short is an emeritus professor of Historical Geography at the University of Sussex. He has a longstanding interest in the rural landscape history and society of South-East England.