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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Leona SkeltonPublisher: White Horse Press Imprint: White Horse Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.603kg ISBN: 9781874267959ISBN 10: 1874267952 Pages: 300 Publication Date: 01 March 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsIntroductionOverviewRiver HistoriographyMethodology and Description of ChaptersChapter 1. 'Hurting the River of Tine': Protecting a Pre-Modern River Estuary, 1529-1850IntroductionEarly Modern Environmental HistoriographyThe Need for RegulationThe Foundations of RegulationThe Character and Stringency of RegulationConclusionChapter 2. 'Tinkering' the Tyne: Increasing Demand for Structural Change, 1655-1855IntroductionRalph Gardiner's Petition, 1655The Great Floods of 1771 and 1815The River Committee and Public Impatience for River Improvement, 1832-1850The Royal Commission of 1855ConclusionChapter 3. Creating a Grand and Deep River: The Tyne Improvement Commission, 1850-1968IntroductionThe TIC's Structure and PurposeDocks and PiersDredging for Industrial ProgressDredging for ResourcesStraightening the ChannelDomestic and Industrial WastesTesting and Attempts at RegulationThe TIC's Intervention in Non-Tidal ReachesConclusionChapter 4. Fish in the Tyne: The Tyne Salmon Conservancy, 1866-1950IntroductionThe Tyne Salmon Conservancy's WorkThe Consequences of Scientific ProgressTackling the Estuary's PollutionConclusionChapter 5. Testing the Troubled Waters: SCORP's Tyne Sub-committee and a Succession of Unsuccessful Reports, 1921-1945IntroductionA Thousand ReportsA Tyne Sewerage Scheme and the Joint CommitteeUnsuccessful ReportsConclusionChapter 6: 'A Medieval Street of Squalor': The Final Demand for a Clean-Up, 1950-1975IntroductionThe 1950s on TyneFinal Demands for a Clean-UpThe Tyneside Joint Sewerage Committee and the Howdon PlanStories from before the Clean-UpConclusionChapter 7. Damming the Tyne: The Creation and Impact of Kielder Reservoir, 1975-2015IntroductionThe Kielder Scheme and its Local Enquiries, 1972-1973The Fish Pass IssueConclusionChapter 8. 'A Big River?': Regeneration, Tourism and the Cultural Meaning of the Tyne, 1972-2015IntroductionIconography of the Newcastle-Gateshead QuaysideCreativity on TyneRiver Recreation Ecological ResponsibilityThe Tyne's Indomitable Natural IndependenceStories from after the Clean-UpConclusionConclusionBibliographyIndexReviews'Skelton makes a convincing argument that the voices of Tynesiders who have lived, played, and worked along the river for most of their lives bring its long history to life. She illustrates how perceptions of harm and efforts to protect the river from that harm have changed by connecting memory with official and governmental records. It becomes more tangible. These people have been intrinsically connected to their river-for better and for worse-and Skelton understands that as no other.' Elizabeth Hameeteman in Environmental Histtory, April 2019 'Skelton makes a convincing argument that the voices of Tynesiders who have lived, played, and worked along the river for most of their lives bring its long history to life. She illustrates how perceptions of harm and efforts to protect the river from that harm have changed by connecting memory with official and governmental records. It becomes more tangible. These people have been intrinsically connected to their river—for better and for worse—and Skelton understands that as no other.' Elizabeth Hameeteman in Environmental Histtory, April 2019 Author InformationAn environmental historian of water, rivers and sanitation infrastructure, Leona is Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow in the Humanities at Northumbria University in Newcastle. Her work focuses on the two-way interactions between people and the environment, developments in environmental attitudes and regulation and how dramatic environmental change has shaped economic, cultural and social lives and livelihoods across northern England and Scotland between 1500 and the present day. Her first monograph, Sanitation in Urban Britain, 1560-1700 (London: Routledge, 2015), investigated the regulation of bio-physical flows of water, manure, blood, urine and industrial waste products in early modern British townscapes, revealing remarkably well organised and effective systems of environmental regulation. Between 2012 and 2015, she contributed to two of Prof Peter Coates' environmental history research projects as a Research Assistant: 'The Places that Speak to Us and the Publics we Talk with' and 'The Power and the Water: Reconnecting Pasts with Futures'. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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