Farming Communities in the Western Alps, 1500–1914 The Enduring Bond

Farming Communities in the Western Alps, 1500–1914 The Enduring Bond / by Robert Dodgshon.

This monograph explores traditional farming communities in French-speaking areas of the western Alps for the period 1500-1914 and how they endured in such an environment despite the many problems and risks which it posed for their subsistence and welfare. Using an extensive amount of archival materi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dodgshon, Robert (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Historical Geography and Geosciences,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Historical geography.
Social history.
Economic history.
Human geography.
Environmental geography.
Agriculture.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Traditional Alpine Communities and the Challenge of Long-term Sustainability
  • The Landholding Foundations of Alpine Farming
  • Face to the Sun: the Exploitation of Arable
  • The Ties that Bind: Livestock Farming in the Western Alps 1500-1914
  • The Alpine Commons: Resource, Regulation and Exploitation 1500-1914
  • The Alpage of the Western Alps
  • Coping with Risk 1500-1914
  • Epilogue.

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