History of English Forestry
Details:
- Author(s) James, N D G
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1981
- Pages 339pp; illus
- Publisher Basil Blackwell
- Place Published Oxford
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Wide ranging account of forestry from Norman times to 1980s dealing with, inter alia, practice of forestry; extent; legal rights and related issues re forests in early period; demand and supply of timber especially in early modern period; use of timber in early shipbuilding - 'The wooden walls'; Forestry Commission; private forestry post 1945. The writer was a past President of Royal Forestry Society who encouraged the project