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Author Mathieu, Jon, author.

Title History of the Alps, 1500-1900 : environment, development, and society / Jon Mathieu ; translated by Matthew Vester
Edition 1st English ed
Published Morgantown, W. Va. : West Virginia University Press, 2009
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Description 1 online resource (iii, 260 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents 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 � Austria -- CH-Statistics � Switzerland -- F-Statistics � France -- FL-Statistics � Principality of Liechtenstein -- I-Statistics � 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 75�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
Summary "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 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. Mathieu's broad historical portrait addresses both the economic and sociopolitical - exploring the relationship between population levels, development, and the Alpine environment, as well as the complex links between agrarian structure, society, and the development of modern civilization. More detailed analysis examines the relationship between various agrarian structures and shifting political configurations, several aspects of family history between the late Middle Ages and the turn of the twentieth century, and exploration of the Savoy, Grisons, and Carinthia regions."--Cover description
Notes Originally published as Geschichte der Alpen, 1500-1900. German ed., 1998
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Economic development -- Alps -- History
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Ecology
Economic development
Economic history
Population
SUBJECT Alps -- History
Alps -- Economic conditions
Alps -- Environmental conditions
Alps -- Population
Subject Alps
Alpen
Genre/Form History
Aufsatzsammlung.
Form Electronic book
Author Vester, Matthew A. (Matthew Allen), translator.
LC no. 2009004105
ISBN 9781935978138
1935978136
Other Titles Geschichte der Alpen, 1500-1900. English