It was hard for me to put this one down
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*Enlightenment's Frontier

Huge subject! I like the work of David Cannadine, maybe Victorious Century or The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, would suit. I remember liking Gatrell's The Hanging Tree in grad school; what are you looking for here?

On this specific topic, Jonsson's 'Green Victorians' and 'Environment's Frontier'; Readman's "Storied Ground"; the work of Peter Thorsheim