British Politics and the Environment in the Long Nineteenth Century
Volume II - Regulating Nature and Conquering Nature
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 29 September 2023
- ISBN 9781032047867
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages442 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 Halftones, black & white 499
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Short description:
This volume of archival source material chronicles British environmental politics between 1789 and 1914. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students of environmental and political history.
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This collection of archival source material chronicles British environmental politics between 1789 and 1914. This text examines the ways in which environmental issues were managed artistically and socially, as well as politically. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students of environmental and political history.
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Volume 2
Acknowledgements
Editorial note on the text
General Introduction
Part 1: Regulating Nature: The Environment and Policy in 19th Century Britain
Chronology
Part 1 introduction
1.1 Public Health
1. Charles Knight, The Staffordshire Collieries 1823
2. Edwin Chadwick, 1842 Report on Sanitary Conditions 1842
3. Alexis De Toqueville, Journeys to England and Ireland 1835
4. Friedrich Engels, Condition of the Working Class in England 1845
5. Charles Dickens, The Uncommercial Traveller 1861
6. Fisheries Preservation Association, On the pollution of the rivers of the kingdom 1868
Alkali Act 1874
7. David John Russell Duncan, On Smoke Abatement 1888
1.2 Animal Cruelty
8. John Oswald, The Cry of Nature. Or, an Appeal to Mercy and Justice on Behalf of the Persecuted Animals. 1791
9. Thomas Erskine, Cruelty to Animals 1809
10. Richard Martin, Bear Bating 1824
11. John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy 1848
12. Joseph Pease, Cruelty to Animals Act 1835
13. Lewis Gompertz, Fragments in Defence of Animals, and Essays on Morals, Soul, and Future State 1852
14. John Percival, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Bill 1902
15. Frances Cobbe, The Moral Aspects of Vivesection 1884
16. Richard Wilson, A Plea for the Sea Birds 1869
17. William Warde, Fowler A Year With the Birds 1891
18. RSPB ,Bird News 1905
19. John Lubbock, Importation of Plumage Prohibition Bill 1908
1.3 The Commons
20. Alexander MacKenzie, The History of the Highland Clearances 1914
21. Samuel Smiles, Mr Rennie’s Drainage of the Lincoln and Cambridge Fens 1861
22. George Shaw Lefevre, English Commons and Forests. The Story of the Battle During the Last Thirty Years for Public Rights Over the Commons and Forests of England and Wales 1894
23. James Bryce, ‘Access to Mountains’ 1892
24. Robert Hunter, ‘Commons’ 1911
References
Part 2: Conquering Nature: The Environment in British Imperialism and Foreign Policy in the 19th Century.
Chronology
Part 2 introduction
2.1 Imperial Sustainability
25. Philip Viberi, A Few hints on Foreign and Home Colonization 1845
26. Harold MacKinder, On the Scope and Methods of Geography. 1887
27. Charles Trevelyan, The Irish Crisis 1848
28. Lord Lytton, The Famine Campaign in Southern India, Madras and Bombay Presidencies and Province of Mysore (1877)
29. James Atkinson, An Account of the State of Agriculture and Grazing in New South Wales 1826
30. William Patrick Andrew, The Scinde Railway and its Relations to the Euphrates Valley and Other Routes to India 1856
31. Michael Hicks-Beach, Further Despatches from the Secretary of State to the Governor of New Zealand 1880
32. Lord Curzon, Speech to the Burma Game Preservation Association 1901
33. William Scoresby, An Account of the Arctic Regions 1820
34. Oriental Gas Company Act 1857
2.2 Military Ecocide
35. Lord Viscount Wellington, Proclamation to the People of Portugal 1810
36. John Davy, An Account of the Interior of Ceylon and of its Inhabitants with Travels in that Island 1821
37. Francis Foster Letter to Parents 1858
38. Colonel George Whitmore Letter to the Hon. Colonel Haultain. Fort Galatea, New Zealand 1869.
39. Francis Stirling Despatches Received by the Admiralty Regarding the Murder in Malay of James Birch 1876
40. Emily Hobhouse, The Brunt of the War and Where it Fell 1902
41. William Wallace, Annual Report of the Colonies: Northern Nigeria 1907
2.3 The Birth of Global Environmental Policy
42. George Cornewall Lewis, Memorandum respecting Quarantine Regulations in the Mediterranean 1838
43. Convention for Regulating the Police of the North Sea Fisheries (Overfishing Convention) 1882
44. Treaty Concerning the Jan Mayen Seal Fishery 1887
45. Bering Sea Arbitration 1893
46. Fur Seals Convention 1911
47. Convention Designed To Ensure The Conservation Of Various Species Of Wild Animals In Africa, Which Are Useful To Man Or Inoffensive 1900
48. Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire 1904
49. Hague Convention 1899
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