Tyne After Tyne
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Tyne After Tyne
An Environmental History of a River's Battle for Protection, 1529-2015
Skelton, Leona
White Horse Press
03/2017
300
Dura
Inglês
9781874267959
15 a 20 dias
Study of 500 years of the Tyne that undermines the traditional reduction of rivers to mere backdrops to human activities. Eschewing narratives equating change with improvement, and declensionist ones of destruction, it focuses on the production of new rivers, situating the Tyne's transformations in political, economic, cultural and social contexts
IntroductionOverviewRiver 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-UpConclusionConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Study of 500 years of the Tyne that undermines the traditional reduction of rivers to mere backdrops to human activities. Eschewing narratives equating change with improvement, and declensionist ones of destruction, it focuses on the production of new rivers, situating the Tyne's transformations in political, economic, cultural and social contexts
IntroductionOverviewRiver 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-UpConclusionConclusionBibliographyIndex
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