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Enlightenment's Frontier: The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism Hardcover - 2013

by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson


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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 nature and society. But when the improvement schemes foundered toward the end of the century, northern Scotland instead became a crucible for anxieties about overpopulation, resource exhaustion, and the physical limits to economic growth. In this way, the rise and fall of the Enlightenment in the Highlands sheds new light on the origins of environmentalism.

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  • Title Enlightenment's Frontier: The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism
  • Author Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First printing
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven
  • Date 2013-06-18
  • ISBN 9780300162547 / 0300162545
  • Weight 1.44 lbs (0.65 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.42 x 6.54 x 1.07 in (23.93 x 16.61 x 2.72 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Scotland - Intellectual life - 18th century, Enlightenment - Scotland
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012040302
  • Dewey Decimal Code 304.209

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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson is an assistant professor of British history at the University of Chicago. He lives in Chicago, IL.
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