1st Edition
British Politics and the Environment in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume I - Discovering Nature and Romanticizing Nature
This volume of archival source material chronicles British environmental politics between 1789 and 1914. This text examines scientific discoveries during this period and the result of these findings on the political environment, bringing the public's attention to public health issues such as acid rain and river pollution. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students of environmental and political history.
Volume 1
Acknowledgment
Note on Copy-Texts
General Introduction
Part 1. Discovering Nature: Science and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Chronology of Science and the Environment in the Nineteenth Century
Volume I Part 1 Introduction
1.1 Biodiversity Decline
1. Gilbert White The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne
2. William Roxburgh Letter to Joseph Banks
3. Alexander Beatson Tracts Relative To The Island Of St. Helena: Written During A Residence Of Five Years
4. William John Burchell Residence in Cape Town, and Rambles in the Vicinity
5. Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology
6. Charles Darwin Origin of the Species
7. James Cowles Prichard The natural history of man : comprising inquiries into the modifying influence of physical and moral agencies on the different tribes of the human family
8. Alfred Newton Abstract of Mr. J. Wolley’s researches in Iceland respecting the gare-fowl or great auk
9. Arthur Tansley Presidential Address (British Ecological Society)
1.2 Resource Depletion
10. Thomas Malthus An Essay on the Principle of Population
11. William Forster Lloyd On the Checks to Population
12. William Farr Economic Value of Population
13. William Jevons The Coal Question; An Inquiry concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of our Coal-mines
14. John Cleghorn On the fluctuations in the herring fisheries
15. Thomas Huxley Inaugural Address. Fisheries Exhibition, London
16. John Croumbie Browne On Forest Schools
17. William Somerville Forestry in Some of its Economic Aspects
1.3 Pollution
18. Henry W. Fuller On the Use of the Arsenic in Agriculture-Poisoning by Arsenic, and Symptoms of Cholera-The Possible Effect of the Game Laws
19. John Snow On the Mode of Communication of Cholera
20. Robert Angus Smith Air and rain : the beginnings of a chemical climatology
21. Michael Faraday Observations on the Filth of the Thames
22. Cardiff Rural Sanitary Authority 'Pollution on Glamorganshire’s Rivers'
23. John Tyndall On Radiation Through the Earth’s Atmosphere
24. Ernest Hart Smoke abatement: a lecture delivered in the lecture room of the International Health Exhibition
25. John Graham The Destruction of Daylight. A Study in the Smoke Problem
References
Part 2: Romanticizing Nature: Environmental Conservation as a Nationalistic Artistic and Political Movement in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Chronology
Volume I Part 2 Introduction
2.1 Aesthetes and Conservation
26. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'The Raven'
27. William Wordsworth, The Excursion
28. Alfred Tennyson 'In Memoriam A.H.H.'
29. John Ruskin, A Protest Against the Extension of Railways in the Lake District
30. George Eliot, Silas Marner
31. William Morris, Under an Elm Tree; or, Thoughts in the Country-Side
32. John Clare 'Remembrances'
33. Octavia Hill, Our Common Land
34. Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
35. Louise De la Ramée (aka Ouida), The Waters of Edera
36. Edward Carpenter, My Days and Dreams
37. John Muir My First Summer in the Sierra
2.2 Conserving Nature and the Aristocracy
38. Jane Austen, Emma
39. William Cobbett, Rural Rides
40. Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil
41. Thomas Carlyle, Sign of the Times
42. Thomas Hardy 'The Dorsetshire Labourer'
43. Thomas Stafford Raffles, London Zoological Society
44. Richard Lydekker, The Game Animals of Africa (dedicated to Herbrand Russell)
45. Charles Rothschild, Nature Reserves: Formation of a New Society
2.3 Conservation and Fear of the Future
46. William Deslisle Hay, The Doom of the Great City: Being the Narrative of a Survivor
47. Alfred Russel Wallace, The Plunder of the Earth
48. Reginald Brabazon (Lord Meath), The National Standard of Physical Health
49. Charles Masterton & Phillip Wilson, The Heart of the Empire
50. H. G. Wells A Modern Utopia
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Peter Hough is an Associate Professor in International Politics at Middlesex University, London. He is the author of Back to the future: environmental security in nineteenth century global politics (2019).
