Brian Short

Turbulent Foresters

A Landscape Biography of Ashdown Forest

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 486
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 173mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1315g
• ISBN-13: 9781783277070
• ISBN-10: 1783277076
• Artikelnr.: 63086791

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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