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

Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 274 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Yale agrarian studies Yale agrarian studies. Contents Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Usage -- Introduction -- 1 Forests, the State, and Alpine Communes: Authority and Conflict, 1669-1860 -- 2 “A Question Almost Politicalâ€?: Reforesting and Reclaiming Apine 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 Forîts: Peasants, Forests, and the State in the Twentieth Century, 1898-1937 6 The Coercion of Pedagogy: Associations in Alpine France, 1891-1937Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index 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.Grounded in detailed case studies of two highland communities -- Jarrier in Savoie and Massat in Ariege -- the book sheds new light on one of the most pronounced conflicts between upland peasants and the state in modern France. Whited argues that the state did not push aside seemingly marginal people in a quick, decisive move justified by the imperatives of modernization. Instead, protesting peasants employed an increasingly flexible arsenal of political responses that forced the state to backtrack and compromise Notes Based on doctoral thesis--U.C.B., 1994 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-267) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Reforestation -- France -- History Forests and forestry -- Political aspects -- France Peasants -- Political activity -- France Land tenure -- Social aspects -- France Alpine regions -- France -- History NATURE -- Natural Resources. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Green Business. Alpine regions Forests and forestry -- Political aspects Land tenure -- Social aspects Peasants -- Political activity Reforestation Bosbouw. Herbebossing. Agrarisch beleid. SUBJECT Savoie (France) -- History Ariège (France) -- History Subject France France -- Ariège France -- Savoie Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0300082274 9780300082272 9780300127614 0300127618

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