Natural Interests : The Contest over Environment in Modern France / Caroline Ford.
Ford, Caroline, author.
2016
GE199.F8 F67 2016
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Title Natural Interests : The Contest over Environment in Modern France / Caroline Ford.
Author Ford, Caroline, author.
ISBN 9780674968875
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674968875
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (296 p.) : 18 halftones, 2 maps, 1 table
Item Number 10.4159/9780674968875 doi
Call Number GE199.F8 F67 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.700944
Summary 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.
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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

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