Forests and Peasant Politics in Modern France

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
List of Abbreviations......Page 12
Note on Usage......Page 13
Introduction......Page 14
1 Forests, the State, and Alpine Communes: Authority and Conflict, 1669-1860......Page 34
2 “A Question Almost Political”: Reforesting and Reclaiming Apine France, c. 1760-1880......Page 65
3 Sisyphus in Savoie: Restoration Confronts the Village, 1882-1913......Page 96
4 The Patrimony of the Poor: The Affair of the Mountains of Massat, 1832-1908......Page 135
5 Old and New in the Eaux et Forêts: Peasants, Forests, and the State in the Twentieth Century, 1898-1937......Page 168
6 The Coercion of Pedagogy: Associations in Alpine France, 1891-1937......Page 194
Conclusion......Page 225
Notes......Page 234
Bibliography......Page 265
Index......Page 282