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

• Main Author: Dodgshon, Robert (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Historical Geography and Geosciences,
• Subjects: Historical geography.; Social history.; Economic history.; Human geography.; Environmental geography.; Agriculture.; Historical Geography.; Social History.; Economic History.; Human Geography.; Environmental Geography.

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...