Enlightenment's Frontier: The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)

Enlightenment's Frontier is a groundbreaking book that sheds new light on the environmental roots of the Scottish Enlightenment.

By recovering the forgotten networks of improvers and natural historians, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson reveals how the Highlands offered a vast outdoor laboratory for rival liberal and conservative views of nature and society.

This book will change historical understanding of eighteenth-century Scotland and illuminate contemporary choices about energy and sustainability.

With subtlety, humor, and a consciousness of its contemporary relevance, Enlightenment's Frontier is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of enlightenment thought, empire and science, development ideology, and environmentalism.