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Peatbogs, plague and potatoes : how climate change and geology shaped Scotland's history

Paperback • 2009 • Norwegian Bokmål

Peatbogs, plague and potatoes : how climate change and geology shaped Scotland's history

By Emma Wood

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About the book

The environment is not a neutral background to human struggles for power and profit. Scotland's past is affected by these non-human factors as much as anything that man has done. The dramatic environmental consequences of volcanic eruptions, floods or drought are not the only ones to effect our lives and our history. Peatbogs, Plague and Potatoes makes Scotland's environmental history easy to understand by summarising the course of human interaction with the non-human environment. The Acts of Un...Show more

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ISBN

9781906307370

Publisher

Edinburgh : Luath Press

Published year

2009

Language

Norwegian Bokmål

Original title

Peatbogs, plague and potatoes : how climate change and geology shaped Scotland's history

Format

Paperback

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