The State in the Forest: Contested Commons in the Nineteenth Century Venetian Alps

The State in the Forest uses a case study of conflict over use of wood - the...
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Author: Giacomo Bonan
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The State in the Forest: Contested Commons in the Nineteenth Century Venetian Alps by Bonan, Giacomo

The State in the Forest: Contested Commons in the Nineteenth Century Venetian Alps

$152.90

The State in the Forest: Contested Commons in the Nineteenth Century Venetian Alps

$152.90
Author: Giacomo Bonan
Format: Paperback
Language: English

The State in the Forest uses a case study of conflict over use of wood - the principal source of energy and the primary raw material

at the time - to offer an environmental history of the nineteenth century 'great transformation'. The focus is on Cadore, a supposedly peripheral area that was, in fact, at the core of the wood economy. The region comprises several valleys of the Eastern Italian Alps that constituted the main timber supply basin of Venice and other cities of the Veneto plain. With vivid and in-depth description of the role of forest resources for both local communities and state apparatus, the book sheds new light on key aspects of the nineteenth century agrarian world: the debate on wood shortage and the rise of scientific forestry; the social and environmental consequences of Napoleonic administrative reforms; the ambivalent relationship between privatisation of common lands and the restrictions imposed by state authorities on common and customary activities; the reorganisation of timber trade networks during the first steps of the industrial transition in continental Europe. Local socio-economic dynamics illuminate the interrelations between the macro and micro scales, showing how general transformations were perceived and experienced on the ground and how local actors were both subjects and agents of these events.



Author: Giacomo Bonan
Publisher: White Horse Press
Published: 08/19/2022
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9781912186679

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