In Nature We Trust: Les paysages anglais a Vere industrielle

摘要

In this handsome volume, which is an expanded version of his doctoral thesis, historian Charles-Francois Mathis (Universite Paris-Sorbonne) charts major environmental changes associated with the industrialization and urbanization of England and Wales from the final decades of the eighteenth century to the start of the First World War. He then traces the emergence of interest groups working to defend the environment, and identifies the passage of protective legislation. Despite his title, he is concerned with both England and Wales, and makes occasional reference to Scotland or Ireland. His approach combines that of the cultural historian, focusing on images and representations, and of the socio-economic historian, identifying the impact of factory-based industrialization in making 'the workshop of the world'.