Forests in Revolutionary France - Conservation, Community, and Conflict, 1669-1848

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The lay of the land; 2. 'Agromania' and silvicultural science; 3. 'A necessity as vital as bread'; 4. 'Seduced by the word 'liberty''; 5. 'Nothing is more respected than the right of property'; 6. 'Not even a branch of wood has been granted to us'; 7. Epilogue: 'homo is but arbor inversa'.

About the author

Kieko Matteson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa. Her dissertation received the American Society for Environmental History's Rachel Carson Prize and Yale University's Henry A. Turner Prize for outstanding work in European history.

Summary

This book investigates the bitterly contested development of environmental conservation in France from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, suggesting that conflicts over forests between the state, landowning elites, and the peasantry reflected escalating demand for this most vital of natural resources and shaped the country's revolutionary struggles.

Product details

• Authors: Kieko Matteson, Kieko (University of Hawaii Matteson, Matteson Kieko
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781107690813
• ISBN: 978-1-107-69081-3
• No. of pages: 325
• Series: Studies in Environment and History; Studies in Environment and His
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, France, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Social & cultural history, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Forests and woodland