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"In the 1700s, Jean-Jacques Rousseau celebrated the Alps as the quintessence of the triumph of nature over the "horrors" of civilization. Now available in English, History of the Alps, 1500-1900: Environment, Development, and Society provides a precise history of one of the greatest m...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mathieu, Jon (Autor)
Otros Autores: Vester, Matthew A. (Matthew Allen) (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Morgantown, W. Va. : West Virginia University Press, 2009.
Edición:1st English ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Geschichte 1500-1900.
Economic development > Alps > History.
Développement économique > Alpes > Histoire.
HISTORY > Europe > General.
Ecology
Economic development
Economic history
Population
Alps > History.
Alps > Economic conditions.
Alps > Environmental conditions.
Alps > Population.
Alpes > Histoire.
Alpes > Conditions économiques.
Alpes > Conditions environnementales.
Alpes > Population.
Alps
Alpen
History
Aufsatzsammlung.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • The Alps: A Historical Space?
  • Key questions and the state of the research
  • The political construction of territory
  • Endnotes
  • Population
  • Data and collection methods
  • Comparing long-term trends
  • Endnotes
  • Agriculture and Alpiculture
  • The intensity differential in the Alps
  • Cropping frequency and yields
  • The intensification of animal husbandry ...
  • ... and of plant cultivation
  • Technology
  • Endnotes
  • Cities
  • Statistics in the early modern era
  • Acceleration of growth
  • The slowing of urban growthThe nineteenth century
  • Endnotes
  • Environment and Development
  • An intermediate assessment: differentiated growth
  • Relations between the Alps and surrounding areas
  • History and ecological models
  • Endnotes
  • Image Gallery
  • The location of the Alps
  • An Italian mountain
  • Map of Italy
  • Maize plant
  • Homage rendered to Emperor Leopold I in Klagenfurt
  • Grenoble and its surroundings
  • The Savoyard cadastre
  • Law concerning feudal rights
  • Hay harvesting below the castle of Hochosterwitz
  • Navigable canal near the Preintaler GscheidlView of a hotel
  • Tribute from an Alpine pasture at the church of Nendaz
  • Mountain farm at HÃ?ttau
  • Two Agrarian Structures (Nineteenth Century)
  • Farming establishments
  • Public order and property
  • Inheritance law, collective resources
  • Endnotes
  • Territories during the Early Modern Period
  • Savoy: the duke, the notables
  • The Grisons: communes with subjects
  • Carinthia: Lord, peasant, servant
  • Endnotes
  • State Formation and Society
  • The European dimension
  • Politics as a factor of differentiationRural societies
  • Endnotes
  • History of the Alps from 1500 to 1900
  • A summary
  • Arguments and outlook
  • Appendices
  • Bibliography
  • Official statistical sources
  • A-Statistics â€? Austria
  • CH-Statistics â€? Switzerland
  • F-Statistics â€? France
  • FL-Statistics â€? Principality of Liechtenstein
  • I-Statistics â€? Italy
  • Selected literature
  • Index
  • Maps
  • Map 1.1: Physical relief of the Alps
  • Map 1.2: Political divisions in the Alps, before 1790 and in 1900
  • Map 2.1: Regions whose surface area is 75â€?100% AlpineMap 3.1: Forms of agriculture in the Alps, ca. 1900, according to de Martonne
  • Map 4.1: Cities with 5000 or more inhabitants, in the Alps and surrounding areas, 1500
  • Map 4.2: Cities with 5000 or more inhabitants, in the Alps and surrounding areas, 1800
  • Map 4.3: The area surrounding Innsbruck, 1928
  • Map 6.1: Medium and large farms in Alpine regions and districts, 1900
  • Map 6.2: Agricultural servants in Alpine regions and districts, 1900
  • Map 6.3: Illegitimacy rates in Alpine regions and districts, 1900

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