Forests and peasant politics in modern France /

Confronting an ecological crisis in 1860, French officials initiated an unprecedented policy of alpine reforestation. The Alps, Pyrenees, and Massif Central mountains were fragile and degraded, scientific experts determined, and the salvation of the mountains (for the benefit of lowland farmers and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Whited, Tamara L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2000.
Colección:Yale agrarian studies.
Temas:
Reforestation > France > History.
Forests and forestry > Political aspects > France.
Peasants > Political activity > France.
Land tenure > Social aspects > France.
Alpine regions > France > History.
Reboisement > France > Histoire.
Paysannerie > Activité politique > France.
Régions montagneuses > France > Histoire.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
Alpine regions
Forests and forestry > Political aspects
Land tenure > Social aspects
Peasants > Political activity
Reforestation
Bosbouw.
Herbebossing.
Agrarisch beleid.
Savoie (France) > History.
Ariège (France) > History.
Savoie (France) > Histoire.
Ariège (France) > Histoire.
France
France > Ariège
France > Savoie
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Note on Usage
  • Introduction
  • 1 Forests, the State, and Alpine Communes: Authority and Conflict, 1669-1860
  • 2 “A Question Almost Politicalâ€?: Reforesting and Reclaiming Apine France, c. 1760-1880
  • 3 Sisyphus in Savoie: Restoration Confronts the Village, 1882-1913
  • 4 The Patrimony of the Poor: The Affair of the Mountains of Massat, 1832-1908
  • 5 Old and New in the Eaux et Forîts: Peasants, Forests, and the State in the Twentieth Century, 1898-1937
  • 6 The Coercion of Pedagogy: Associations in Alpine France, 1891-1937Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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