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Enlightenment's Frontier

The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism

Enlightenment's Frontier( )
Author: Albritton Jonsson, Fredrik
Series title:The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History Ser.
ISBN:978-0-300-16254-7
Publication Date:Jun 2013
Publisher:Yale University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $69.00
Book Description:

Enlightenment's Frontier is the first book to investigate the environmental roots of the Scottish Enlightenment. What was the place of the natural world in Adam Smith's famous defense of free trade? Fredrik Albritton Jonsson recovers the forgotten networks of improvers and natural historians that sought to transform the soil, plants, and climate of Scotland in the eighteenth century. The Highlands offered a vast outdoor laboratory for rival liberal and conservative views of...
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