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  title info:
    title: Farming Communities in the Western Alps, 1500-1914
    sub title: The Enduring Bond
  name:
    name part: Dodgshon, Robert.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVII, 168 p. 71 illus., 18 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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 material drawn from the relevant regional archives, the book presents a great deal of fresh data. Its central theme is how such communities responded to the opportunities and challenges presented by the highly variegated environment of their setting. The view taken is that their strategies of exploitation stressed diversity and flexibility, mapping the highly varied ecologies and resource opportunities of their setting into these strategies by spreading livelihood and risk as widely as possible. This interpretative framework is developed across all the book's themes: landholding, arable and livestock sectors, use of the commons and, finally, how communities coped with climate-based risks. The book appeals to geographers, historians, environmental scientists and everyone interested in traditional farming communities and their long-term challenges.
  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.
  note: by Robert Dodgshon.
  subject:
    topic: Historical geography
  subject:
    topic: Social history
  subject:
    topic: Economic history
  subject:
    topic: Human geography
  subject:
    topic: Environmental geography
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  subject:
    topic: Historical Geography
  subject:
    topic: Social History
  subject:
    topic: Economic History
  subject:
    topic: Human Geography
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Geography
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  classification: G141
  classification: 911
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Historical Geography and Geosciences
  identifier: 9783030163617
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16361-7
  record info:
    record creation date: 190524
    record change date: 20191220125329.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-16361-7