Format:
1 Online-Ressource (400 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780300265309
Content:
A vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable women
Note:
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Cover -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Maps -- Introduction The Four -- OCTAVIA HILL Gathering in the Givers -- Octavia Hill Gathering in the Givers -- A Visit to the Hill Country Archipelago -- Arguments -- The National Trust -- Reputation -- BEATRIX POTTERA Farm of One's Own -- Beatrix Potter A Farm of One's Own -- The Bequest -- Upbringing -- Viking Sheep, Rawnsley and Preservationism -- Hill Top Farm -- Troutbeck -- Monk Coniston Park Estate -- Planning -- Retirement -- PAULINE DOWER 'Inconspicuous Good' -- Pauline Dower 'Inconspicuous Good' -- A Trevelyan -- The Commission Gets Started -- At Work -- Northumberland National Park -- Case Work -- 'Such an Interesting Life' -- SYLVIA SAYER Segregating Dartmoor -- Sylvia Sayer Segregating Dartmoor -- 'My Unconscionable Impatience' -- Dartmoor's First Preservationists -- The Silent Remembering Moor -- Rural Subtopia -- Locus Standi -- The Reservoir Battles -- Forestry -- Military and Access -- Wild Country -- Epilogue Fifty Years On -- NOTES -- FURTHER READING -- Index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kelly, Matthew The Women Who Saved the English Countryside New Haven : Yale University Press,c2022 ISBN 9780300232240
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
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English Studies
Keywords:
Großbritannien
;
Landschaftsschutz
;
Geschichte 1870-2020
