Emeritus Professor Peter McPhee (Australia University of Melbourne

An Environmental History of France

Making the Landscape, 1770-2020

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An environmental and cultural history of the creation of the French landscape from 1770 to the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9781350523852
• ISBN-10: 1350523852
• Artikelnr.: 71615441

Autorenporträt

Peter McPhee

Inhaltsangabe

List of Plates
List of Figures
List of Maps
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Pre-industrial Landscape of the 1770s
2. The Environmental Crisis of the French Revolution, 1789-1799
3. 'Criss-crossing the Kingdom', 1800-1850
4. 'Many conquests to make', 1850-1880
5. 'A landscape worthy of being preserved', 1880-1914
6. 'Corpses of trees covering the corpses of men', 1914-50
7. Making the Contemporary Landscape, 1950-2000
8. Living the Anthropocene, 2000-2020
Conclusion
Select Bibliography
Index