Natural Interests : : The Contest over Environment in Modern France / / 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, wri...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 18 halftones, 2 maps, 1 table |
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Table of Contents:
- 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