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

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"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.

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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.

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