Nomad''s Land - Pastoralism French Environmental Policy in Nineteenth Century

Informationen zum Autor Andrea E. Duffy is the director of international studies and an assistant professor at Colorado State University.   Klappentext Andrea E. Duffy is the director of international studies and an assistant professor at Colorado State University. ¿ Zusammenfassung Investigates the relationship between Mediterranean mobile pastoralism and nineteenth-century French forestry through case studies in Provence, French colonial Algeria, and Ottoman Anatolia. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures     Acknowledgments     Introduction: The Nomad and the Sea     Part 1: People, Place, and Perceptions 1. Land of the Golden Fleece: Mediterranean Pastoralism in a Wider Society     2. Black Sheep: The Intellectual Roots of Mediterranean Environmental Policy     3. Counting Sheep: Pastoralism and the Construction of French Scientific Forestry     Part 2: Growth and Transformation 4. The Forest for the Trees: The Application of French Scientific Forestry around the Mediterranean     5. Against the Grain: The Transformation of Land Use and Property     6. Nature’s Scapegoats: Pastoralists and Natural Disasters     7. Sheep to the Slaughter: Mediterranean Pastoralism and Forestry at the Turn of the Twentieth Century     Conclusion: Planting Politics     Notes     Bibliography     Index

Product details

• Authors: Andrea E Duffy, Andrea E. Duffy
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780803290976
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-9097-6
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization; France Overseas: Studies in Em
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography