An environmental history of Great Britain : from 10,000 years ago to the present / I.G. Simmons.

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2001], ©2001.

xi, 419 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Hunter-gatherers and fisherfolk: 10,000 to 5000 BP -- Shafts of light: agriculturalists -- Closed and open systems, AD 550 to AD 1700 -- Building Jerusalem: the Eighteenth Century -- Industrial growth: material empires, 1800-1914 -- 'A fit country for heroes', 1914-50 -- A post-industrial world, 1950 to the present -- Experience and meaning -- Appendix 1: The changing environment from the air.