Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- I: Dynastic Policy and French Maritime Power -- II: Masts, Ship Timber, and French Forest Law -- III: Timber Cuts and Contracts -- IV: Transport of Naval Timber and Masts -- V: Forest Depletion -- VI: Domestic Timber Shortage and the Navy -- VII: The Quest for Domestic and Colonial Masts and Spars -- VIII: The Northern Market in Naval Stores -- IX: Merchant Shipping and the Timber Problem -- X: Black Sea and North American Markets after 1776 -- XI: Conclusions -- Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
Summary
Mr. Bamford has provided the first monograph in the English language on€discovering what forest resources were available to the French navy during the€ ancien régime €and what use it was able to make of them€in the English language
