Exploring Environmental History

Exploring Environmental History
Author: T. C. Smout
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2009-05-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0748635149


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This volume, newly available in paperback, brings together the best of T. C. Smout's recent articles and contributions to books and journals on the topic of environmental history and offers them as a collection of 'explorations'. The author's interests are multi-faceted and, though often focussed on post-1600 Scotland, by no means restricted to that area.


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One of the oldest metropolitan areas in North America, Montreal has evolved from a remote fur-trading post in New France into an international center for servic
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Pages: 0
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