TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ford,Caroline
TI  - Natural Interests: The Contest over Environment in Modern France 
SN  - 9780674045903
AV  - GE199.F8 F67 2016
U1  - 363.700944 
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Environmental policy
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Environmental protection
KW  - Environmentalism
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / France
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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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