England's Green: Nature and Culture Since the 1960's, David Matless

England's Green: Nature and Culture Since the 1960's, David MatlessNew hardback Englands Green explores how environmental concerns have shaped and reflected English national identity since the 1960s. David Matless covers themes including agriculture, nature, leisure, climate change, the Anthropocene, the folkloric, the archaeological and the mystical. He also shows how national environmental affairs connect to the local, the regional, the global and the postcolonial. Moving across a breadth of source material from

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a whistle-stop tour through the past – from Alexander the Great to Tolkien

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exploring the motivations and private dramas of key individuals and detailing the back room politics and bitter rivalries that lay behind this epic adventure

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