Natural Interests : : The Contest over Environment in Modern France / / Caroline Ford.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016
• VerfasserIn: Ford, Caroline,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 18 halftones, 2 maps, 1 table
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures and Maps --; Introduction --; 1. François-Antoine Rauch's New Harmony of Nature --; 2. Saving the Forests First --; 3. The Torrents of the Nineteenth Century --; 4. Environment and Landscape as Heritage --; 5. The Internationalization of Nature Protection --; 6. Reforestation and the Anxieties of Empire in Colonial Algeria --; 7. The Greening of Paris --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674968875; 9783110485103; 9783110485189; 9783110638585
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674968875
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Caroline Ford.

Challenging the conventional trope that French environmentalism arose after WWII, Caroline Ford argues that a broad environmental consciousness emerged in France much earlier. In response to war, natural disasters, and imperialism, the bourgeoisie, along with politicians, engineers, naturalists, writers, and painters, took up environmental causes.