Auricchio, Laura (Editor)
Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn (Editor)
Pacini, Giulia (Editor)
Voltaire Foundation
Physical Details: xi + 360 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English
Trees and tree products have long been central to human life and culture, taking on intensified significance during the long eighteenth century. As basic raw material they were vital economic resources, objects of international diplomatic and commercial exchange, and key features in local economies. In an age of ongoing deforestation, both individuals and public entities grappled with the complex issues of how and why trees mattered. In this interdisciplinary volume, contributors build on recent research in environmental history, literary and material culture, and postcolonial studies to develop new readings of the ways trees were valued in the eighteenth century. They trace changes in early modern theories of resource management and ecology across European and North American landscapes, and show how different and sometimes contradictory practices were caught up in shifting conceptions of nature, social identity, physical health and moral wellbeing. In its innovative and thought-provoking exploration of man's relationship with trees, Invaluable trees: cultures of nature, 1660 --1830 argues for new ways of understanding the long eighteenth century and its values, and helps re-frame the environmental challenges of our own time.
...MoreReview Whited, Tamara L. (2014) Review of "Invaluable Trees: Cultures of Nature, 1660--1830". Environmental History (pp. 403-405).
Chapter Graham, Hamish (2012) “Alone in the Forest”? Trees, Charcoal and Charcoal Burners in Eighteenth-Century France. In: Invaluable Trees: Cultures of Nature, 1660--1830 (pp. 23-37).
Chapter Caradonna, J. L. (2012) Conservationism Avant La Lettre? Public Essay Competitions on Forestry and Deforestation in Eighteenth-Century France. In: Invaluable Trees: Cultures of Nature, 1660--1830 (pp. 39-54).
Chapter Lee, Paula Young (2012) Land, Logs and Liberty: The Revolutionary Expansion of the Muséum D'histoire Naturelle during the Terror. In: Invaluable Trees: Cultures of Nature, 1660--1830 (pp. 55-72).
Chapter Mcphee, Peter (2012) “Cette anarchie dévastatrice”: The légende noire of the French Revolution. In: Invaluable Trees: Cultures of Nature, 1660--1830 (pp. 73-85).
Chapter Elliott, Paul (2012) Erasmus Darwin's Trees. In: Invaluable Trees: Cultures of Nature, 1660--1830 (pp. 87-101).
Chapter Pacini, Giulia (2012) At Home with Their Trees: Arboreal Beings in the Eighteenth-Century French Imaginary. In: Invaluable Trees: Cultures of Nature, 1660--1830 (pp. 103-115).
Chapter Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn (2012) The Vocal Stump: The Politics of Tree-Felling in Swift's “On Cutting down the Old Thorn at Market Hill”. In: Invaluable Trees: Cultures of Nature, 1660--1830 (pp. 119-133).
Chapter Guenther, Michael (2012) Tapping Nature's Bounty: Science and Sugar Maples in the Age of Improvement. In: Invaluable Trees: Cultures of Nature, 1660--1830 (pp. 135-149).
Chapter Martin, Meredith (2012) Bourbon Renewal at Rambouillet. In: Invaluable Trees: Cultures of Nature, 1660--1830 (pp. 151-169).
Chapter Taylor-Leduc, Susan (2012) Assessing the Value of Fruit Trees in the Marquis De Fontanes's Poem Le Verger. In: Invaluable Trees: Cultures of Nature, 1660--1830 (pp. 171-183).
Chapter Hyde, Elizabeth (2012) Arboreal Negotiations, or William Livingston's American Perspective on the Cultural Politics of Trees in the Atlantic World. In: Invaluable Trees: Cultures of Nature, 1660--1830 (pp. 185-199).
Chapter Ford, Lisa (2012) The “Naturalisation” of François André Michaux's North American sylva: Patriotism in Early American Natural History. In: Invaluable Trees: Cultures of Nature, 1660--1830 (pp. 201-218).
Chapter Williamson, Tom (2012) The Management of Trees and Woods in Eighteenth-Century England. In: Invaluable Trees: Cultures of Nature, 1660--1830 (pp. 221-235).
Chapter King, Steven (2012) The Healing Tree. In: Invaluable Trees: Cultures of Nature, 1660--1830 (pp. 237-250).
Chapter Jordan, Nicolle (2012) “I Writ These Lines on the Body of the Tree”: Jane Barker's Arboreal Poetics. In: Invaluable Trees: Cultures of Nature, 1660--1830 (pp. 251-263).
Chapter Maierhofer, Waltraud (2012) Goethe and Forestry. In: Invaluable Trees: Cultures of Nature, 1660--1830 (pp. 265-280).
Chapter Backscheider, Paula R. (2012) Disputed Value: Women and the Trees They Loved. In: Invaluable Trees: Cultures of Nature, 1660--1830 (pp. 281-299).
Chapter Allen, Aaron S. (2012) “Fatto di Fiemme”: Stradivari's Violins and the Musical Trees of the Paneveggi. In: Invaluable Trees: Cultures of Nature, 1660--1830 (pp. 301-315).
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