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title	:	Secure From Rash Assault : Sustaining the Victorian Environment
author	:	Winter, James H.
publisher	:	University of California Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0520216091
print isbn13	:	9780520216099
ebook isbn13	:	9780585079462
language	:	English
subject	Human ecology--Great Britain--History--19th century, Nature--Effect of human beings on--Great Britain.
publication date	:	1999
lcc	:	GF551.W56 1999eb
ddc	:	333.7/13/094109034
subject	:	Human ecology--Great Britain--History--19th century, Nature--Effect of human beings on--Great Britain.

Page iii Secure from Rash Assault Sustaining the Victorian Environment James Winter UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley Los Angeles London

Page iv University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England 1999 by The Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Winter, James H., 1925 Secure from Rash Assault: Sustaining the Victorian environment / James Winter. p. cm. Includes bibliographic references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-520-21609-1 (alk. paper) 1. Human ecologyGreat BritainHistory 19th century. 2. Natureeffect of human beings onGreat Britain. I. Title. GF551.W56 1999 333.7'13'094109034dc21 98-43970 Printed in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standards for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.

Page v Contents List of Illustrations vii Preface ix Introduction 1 1. Innovation and Continuity 7 2. The Cultural Landscape 19 3. Lowland Fields 40 4. Upland Moors 62 5. Woods and Trees 83 6. Cutting New Channels 104 7. Holes 124 8. Heaps 143 9. The City in the Country 166 10. Greening the City 189 11. The Environment of Leisure 209 12. The Hungry Ocean 231 Conclusion 249 List of Abbreviations 259 Notes 261 Bibliography 309 Index 333

Page vii Illustrations 1. Portable Petroleum Motor 14 2. George Perkins Marsh 30 3. Combined Thresher and Finisher 46 4. Steam Cultivation in Sutherland 75 5. Tree Felling by Machinery 92 6. Excavating Scoop 116 7. The Great Subsidence 128 8. Manchester from Kersall Moor 154 9. Lake Thirlmere Becoming a Reservoir 185 10. Poor Woman's Roof Garden 201 11. Ladies' Golf Championship at Portrush, Ireland 226 12. Bucket-and-Ladder Dredging Machine 239

Page ix Preface Our ship reached Southampton late in the day. Numbed and disoriented, foliage scratching against the canvas overhead, we twisted down country lanes until the convoy of trucks came to a halt. The tailgate dropped, and we jumped down stiffly into blackness, stumbled to a Nissen hut, and shivered under mounds of blankets until the first pale light and the sergeant's whistle. In a white mist, we were counted, given a breakfast of sorts, lined up two by two, and sent off on a long hike to improve our morale and muscle tone. The line of march led down deep-cut lanes hedged with yew to Middle Wallop, its houses thatched and gathered cozily together, and, a bit further on, to Over Wallop with its ancient parish church. Then we turned north and west into Wiltshire and the eastern edge of the Salisbury Plain. In that one morning we passed from village clusters and bounded fields following along a calmly moving stream out to the edges of an unbounded world of open, rolling, gently sculpted downs and woldsthe images I had brought with me across the Atlantic made so completely, so immediately, manifest!

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