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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Dodgshon, Robert (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Historical Geography and Geosciences,
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.