This volume of archival source material chronicles British environmental politics between 1789 and 1914. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students of environmental and political history.

Peter Hough is an Associate Professor in International Politics at Middlesex University, London. He is the author of Back to the future: environmental security in nineteenth century global politics (2019).

Volume 2

Acknowledgements

Editorial note on the text

General Introduction

Part 1: Regulating Nature: The Environment and Policy in 19th Century Britain

Chronology

Part 1 introduction

1.1 Public Health

1. Charles Knight, The Staffordshire Collieries 1823

2. Edwin Chadwick, 1842 Report on Sanitary Conditions 1842

3. Alexis De Toqueville, Journeys to England and Ireland 1835

4. Friedrich Engels, Condition of the Working Class in England 1845

5. Charles Dickens, The Uncommercial Traveller 1861

6. Fisheries Preservation Association, On the pollution of the rivers of the kingdom 1868

Alkali Act 1874

7. David John Russell Duncan, On Smoke Abatement 1888

1.2 Animal Cruelty

8. John Oswald, The Cry of Nature. Or, an Appeal to Mercy and Justice on Behalf of the Persecuted Animals. 1791

9. Thomas Erskine, Cruelty to Animals 1809

10. Richard Martin, Bear Bating 1824

11. John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy 1848

12. Joseph Pease, Cruelty to Animals Act 1835

13. Lewis Gompertz, Fragments in Defence of Animals, and Essays on Morals, Soul, and Future State 1852

14. John Percival, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Bill 1902

15. Frances Cobbe, The Moral Aspects of Vivesection 1884

16. Richard Wilson, A Plea for the Sea Birds 1869

17. William Warde, Fowler A Year With the Birds 1891

18. RSPB ,Bird News 1905

19. John Lubbock, Importation of Plumage Prohibition Bill 1908

1.3 The Commons

20. Alexander MacKenzie, The History of the Highland Clearances 1914

21. Samuel Smiles, Mr Rennie's Drainage of the Lincoln and Cambridge Fens 1861

22. George Shaw Lefevre, English Commons and Forests. The Story of the Battle During the Last Thirty Years for Public Rights Over the Commons and Forests of England and Wales 1894

23. James Bryce, 'Access to Mountains' 1892

24. Robert Hunter, 'Commons' 1911

References

Part 2: Conquering Nature: The Environment in British Imperialism and Foreign Policy in the 19th Century.

Chronology

Part 2 introduction

2.1 Imperial Sustainability

25. Philip Viberi, A Few hints on Foreign and Home Colonization 1845

26. Harold MacKinder, On the Scope and Methods of Geography. 1887

27. Charles Trevelyan, The Irish Crisis 1848

28. Lord Lytton, The Famine Campaign in Southern India, Madras and Bombay Presidencies and Province of Mysore (1877)

29. James Atkinson, An Account of the State of Agriculture and Grazing in New South Wales 1826

30. William Patrick Andrew, The Scinde Railway and its Relations to the Euphrates Valley and Other Routes to India 1856

31. Michael Hicks-Beach, Further Despatches from the Secretary of State to the Governor of New Zealand 1880

32. Lord Curzon, Speech to the Burma Game Preservation Association 1901

33. William Scoresby, An Account of the Arctic Regions 1820

34. Oriental Gas Company Act 1857

2.2 Military Ecocide

35. Lord Viscount Wellington, Proclamation to the People of Portugal 1810

36. John Davy, An Account of the Interior of Ceylon and of its Inhabitants with Travels in that Island 1821

37. Francis Foster Letter to Parents 1858

38. Colonel George Whitmore Letter to the Hon. Colonel Haultain. Fort Galatea, New Zealand 1869.

39. Francis Stirling Despatches Received by the Admiralty Regarding the Murder in Malay of James Birch 1876

40. Emily Hobhouse, The Brunt of the War and Where it Fell 1902

41. William Wallace, Annual Report of the Colonies: Northern Nigeria 1907

2.3 The Birth of Global Environmental Policy

42. George Cornewall Lewis, Memorandum respecting Quarantine Regulations in the Mediterranean 1838

43. Convention for Regulating the Police of the North Sea Fisheries (Overfishing Convention) 1882

44. Treaty Concerning the Jan Mayen Seal Fishery 1887

45. Bering Sea Arbitration 1893

46. Fur Seals Convention 1911

47. Convention Designed To Ensure The Conservation Of Various Species Of Wild Animals In Africa, Which Are Useful To Man Or Inoffensive 1900

48. Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire 1904

49. Hague Convention 1899

References

Index