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Secure from Rash Assault
Nineteenth-century Britain led the world in technological innovation and urbanization, and unprecedented population growth contributed as well to the "rash assault," to quote Wordsworth, on Victorian countrysides. Yet James Winter finds that the British environment was generally spared widespread ecological damage. Drawing from a remarkable variety of sources and disciplines, Winter focuses on human intervention as it not only destroyed but also preserved the physical environment. Industrial blight could be contained, he says, because of Britain's capacity to import resources from elsewhere, the conservative effect of the estate system, and certain intrinsic limitations of steam engines. The...
Breakwaters
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Who was who
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Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
Vols. 10-11 include Meteorology of England by James Glaisher as seperately paged section at end.
Who's who
An annual biographical dictionary, with which is incorporated "Men and women of the time."
Who's who in Literature
Contains list of "Fictitious and pseudonymous names."
