| Book Review | Environmental History, 8.2

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| Book Review | Environmental History, 8.2 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

An Environmental History of Twentieth Century Britain. By John Sheail. New York: Palgrave, 2002. x + 306 pp. Bibliography, Index. Cloth $72.00.

There is something of a vogue at the moment for producing regional and global environmental histories. For example, recent works have examined the whole world since the Holocene (Donald Hughes, An Environmental History of the World, 2001) and during the last century (J. R. McNeill, Something New Under The Sun, 2000); Britain since the industrial revolution (B. W. Clapp, An Environmental History of Britain Since the Industrial Revolution, 1994) and since the Pleistocene (I. G. Simmons, An Environmental History of Great Britain, 2001—so this review is not totally disinterested); and now the twentieth century. John Sheail is a historical geographer who has worked for government environmental bodies for most of his career and has produced a formidable series of detailed papers on a number of environmental themes and their regulation, along with books on nature conservation, on national parks, and on pesticides, all in the United Kingdom. Much of this work is now brought together in a book that focuses on the way in which the United Kingdom has dealt with perceived environmental problems and changes in the century ending in 1999. . . .

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