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Natural Interests : The Contest over Environment in Modern France / Caroline Ford.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) : 18 halftones, 2 maps, 1 tableContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674045903
  • 9780674968875
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.700944
LOC classification:
  • GE199.F8 F67 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Maps -- Introduction -- 1. François-Antoine Rauch's New Harmony of Nature -- 2. Saving the Forests First -- 3. The Torrents of the Nineteenth Century -- 4. Environment and Landscape as Heritage -- 5. The Internationalization of Nature Protection -- 6. Reforestation and the Anxieties of Empire in Colonial Algeria -- 7. The Greening of Paris -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: Challenging the conventional trope that French environmentalism arose after WWII, Caroline Ford argues that a broad environmental consciousness emerged in France much earlier. In response to war, natural disasters, and imperialism, the bourgeoisie, along with politicians, engineers, naturalists, writers, and painters, took up environmental causes.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Maps -- Introduction -- 1. François-Antoine Rauch's New Harmony of Nature -- 2. Saving the Forests First -- 3. The Torrents of the Nineteenth Century -- 4. Environment and Landscape as Heritage -- 5. The Internationalization of Nature Protection -- 6. Reforestation and the Anxieties of Empire in Colonial Algeria -- 7. The Greening of Paris -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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Challenging the conventional trope that French environmentalism arose after WWII, Caroline Ford argues that a broad environmental consciousness emerged in France much earlier. In response to war, natural disasters, and imperialism, the bourgeoisie, along with politicians, engineers, naturalists, writers, and painters, took up environmental causes.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)