This book investigates the bitterly contested development of environmental Conservation in France from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, suggesting that conflicts over Forests between the state, landowning elites, and the peasantry reflected escalating demand for this most vital of natural resources and shaped the country\'s Revolutionary struggles..
This book investigates the bitterly contested development of environmental Conservation in France from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, suggesting that conflicts over Forests between the state, landowning elites, and the peasantry reflected escalating demand for this most vital of natural resources and shaped the country\'s Revolutionary struggles.