Research Catalog

Title

Forests and peasant politics in modern France / Tamara L. Whited.

Author

Whited, Tamara L.

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2000.

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Details

Description

xii, 274 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

"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 urban areas) would require watershed restorations and reduced access to forest and pasture for alpine peasants. This book is an environmental and political history of the disputes over the uses of mountains and forests in France from the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of World War II."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Yale agrarian studies series

Uniform Title

Yale agrarian studies

Subject

• 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
• Alpine regions
• Forests and forestry > Political aspects
• Land tenure > Social aspects
• Peasants > Political activity
• Reforestation
• Agrarpolitik
• Wald
• Bosbouw
• Herbebossing
• Agrarisch beleid
• Savoie (France) > History
• Ariège (France) > History
• Savoie (France) > Histoire
• Ariège (France) > Histoire
• France
• France > Ariège
• France > Savoie
• Frankreich

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Based on doctoral thesis--U.C.B., 1994.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-267) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Forests, the State, and Alpine Communes: Authority and Conflict, 1669-1860 -- 2. "A Question Almost Political": Reforesting and Reclaiming Alpine 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 Forets: Peasants, Forests, and the State in the Twentieth Century, 1898-1937 -- 6. The Coercion of Pedagogy: Associations in Alpine France, 1891-1937.

ISBN

• 0300082274
• 9780300082272

LCCN

00038152

OCLC

• 45425017
• SCSB-12549091

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library