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History of the Alps, 1500-1900 : environment, development, and society / Jon Mathieu ; translated by Matthew Vester.
Van Pelt Library DQ823.5 .M3813 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mathieu, Jon.
- Standardized Title:
- Geschichte der Alpen, 1500-1900. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Population.
- Environmental conditions.
- Economic development.
- History.
- Economic conditions.
- Alps--History.
- Alps.
- Alps--Economic conditions.
- Economic development--Alps--History.
- Alps--Environmental conditions.
- Alps--Population.
- Physical Description:
- iii, 260 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First English edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- In the 1700s, lean-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 mountain range systems in the world. Jon Mathieu's work disproves a number of commonly held notions about the Alps, positioning them as neither an inversion of lowland society nor a world apart with respect to Europe.
- Contents:
- 1 The Alps: A Historical Space? 5
- Key questions and the state of the research 8
- The political construction of territory 14
- 2 Population 23
- Data and collection methods 24
- Comparing long-term trends 34
- 3 Agriculture and Alpiculture 47
- The intensity differential in the Alps 49
- Cropping frequency and yields 55
- The intensification of animal husbandry 61
- ... and of plant cultivation 64
- Technology 70
- Cities 83
- Statistics in the early modern era 85
- Acceleration of growth 92
- The slowing of urban growth 97
- The nineteenth century 104
- 5 Environment and Development 114
- An intermediate assessment: differentiated growth 115
- Relations between the Alps and surrounding areas 119
- History and ecological models 127
- 6 Two Agrarian Structures (Nineteenth Century) 135
- Farming establishments 137
- Public order and property 146
- Inheritance law, collective resources 154
- 7 Territories during the Early Modern Period 161
- Savoy: the duke, the notables 163
- The Grisons: communes with subjects 171
- Carinthia: Lord, peasant, servant 180
- 8 State Formation and Society 195
- The European dimension 196
- Politics as a factor of differentiation 205
- Rural societies 209
- 9 History of the Alps from 1500 to 1900 222
- A summary 222
- Arguments and outlook 225
- Appendices 229
- Bibliography 241.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781933202341
- 1933202343
- 1933202416
- 9781933202419
- OCLC:
- 302099573
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