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Trees And Tree Products Have Long Been Central To Human Life And Culture, Taking On Intensified Significance During The Long 18th Century. In This Interdisciplinary Volume, Contributors Trace Changes In Early Modern Theories Of Resource Management And Ecology Across European And North American Landscapes. 'alone In The Forest'? Trees, Charcoal And Charcoal Burners In Eighteenth-century France / Hamish Graham -- Conservationism Avant La Lettre? Public Essay Competitions On Forestry And Deforestation In Eighteenth-century France / J.l. Caradonna -- Land, Logs And Liberty : The Revolutionary Expansion Of The Muséum D'histoire Naturelle During The Terror / Paula Young Lee -- 'cette Anarchie Dévastatrice' : The Légende Noire Of The French Revolution / Peter Mcphee -- Erasmus Darwin's Trees / Paul Elliott -- At Home With Their Trees : Arboreal Beings In The Eighteenth-century French Imaginary / Giulia Pacini -- The Vocal Stump : The Politics Of Tree-felling In Swift's 'on Cutting Down The Old Thorn At Market Hill' / Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook -- Tapping Nature's Bounty : Science And Sugar Maples In The Age Of Improvement / Michael Guenther -- Bourbon Renewal At Rambouillet / Meredith Mart

Author

Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook; Laura Auricchio; Giulia Pacini; Voltaire Foundation

Publisher

Voltaire Foundation in association with Liverpool University Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780729410489

Subjects

Economics, Agriculture, History