Enlightenment's Frontier: The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism

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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson

Enlightenment's Frontier

The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson

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Yale University Press
18 June 2013

British & Irish history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Western philosophy: Enlightenment; Environmentalist thought & ideology

Series: The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History

Enlightenment’s Frontier is the first book to investigate the environmental roots of the Scottish Enlightenment. What was the place of the natural world in Adam Smith’s famous defense of free trade? Fredrik Albritton Jonsson recovers the forgotten networks of improvers and natural historians that sought to transform the soil, plants, and climate of Scotland in the eighteenth century. The Highlands offered a vast outdoor laboratory for rival liberal and conservative views of nature and society. But when the improvement schemes foundered toward the end of the century, northern Scotland instead became a crucible for anxieties about overpopulation, resource exhaustion, and the physical limits to economic growth. In this way, the rise and fall of the Enlightenment in the Highlands sheds new light on the origins of environmentalism.

By: Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 658g
ISBN: 9780300162547
ISBN 10: 0300162545
Series: The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 18 June 2013
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson is an assistant professor of British history at the University of Chicago. He lives in Chicago, IL.

Reviews for Enlightenment's Frontier: The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism

Enlightenment's Frontier is a wonderful work of environmental, intellectual and social history, which will change historical understanding of eighteenth-century Scotland and illuminate contemporary choices about energy and sustainability. -Emma Rothschild, Harvard University -- Emma Rothschild A lively work, written with subtlety, some considerable humor, and always conscious of its contemporary relevance ... this volume should be read by those with an interest in the history of enlightenment thought, empire and science, development ideology, and environmentalism. -Paul Warde, University of East Anglia -- Paul Warde An important and interesting book and one that should speak to different historical scholars-of Enlightenment, of intellectual history, of British and Scottish history. -Charles W. J. Withers, University of Edinburgh -- Charles W J Withers