Imposition, Emulation and Adaptation: Regulatory Regimes in the Commons of Early Modern Germany (2013)
New institutional approaches to the commons have seen a proliferation of work in recent years that has overturned stereotypes of `tragedy' and mismanagement. Much of this work remains centred, however, on the fortunes of individual commons and relates changes in management to local challenges and experiences. This article uses a large sample of by-laws from commons in south-western Germany to show how regulation has emerged as a complex historical process of imposition of rules by lordship, emulation of neighbours and response to crisis; it demonstrates that relying on the internal evidence of individual by-laws can be quite misleading about the circumstances of their creation. The article argues that a major stimulus to by-law recording was intra-communal conflict, and, as the results of negotiated resolution of these disputes, we should be cautious of reading by-laws as records of ecological optimisation rather than attempts to resolve conflicts over the allocation of resources.
...MoreSimilar Citations
Chapter
Fabrizio Costantini;
(2022)
Confini fluviali, esondazioni, controllo istituzionale: Bergamo, Cremona e Pavia in età moderna
(/isis/citation/CBB850545361/)
Article
Wilson, Jeffrey K.;
(2014)
“The Holy Property of the Entirety of the People”: The Struggle for the “German Forest” in Prussia, 1871--1914
(/isis/citation/CBB001421404/)
Book
Candace Fujikane;
(2021)
Mapping abundance for a planetary future : Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai'i
(/isis/citation/CBB429240012/)
Book
Crane, Jeff;
(2015)
The Environment in American History: Nature and the Formation of the United States
(/isis/citation/CBB001551938/)
Book
Candace Fujikane;
(2021)
Mapping abundance for a planetary future : Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai'i
(/isis/citation/CBB655094992/)
Book
Mulwafu, Wapulumuka Oliver;
(2011)
Conservation Song: A History of Peasant-State Relations and the Environment in Malawi, 1860--2000
(/isis/citation/CBB001422348/)
Book
Black, Brian C.;
(2012)
Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History
(/isis/citation/CBB001201520/)
Article
Bekasova, Alexandra V.;
(2010)
Studies of the Russian Empire by the Expeditions of the 1760s--1780s: The “View” of Naturalists and the Formation of the Concept of the State's Natural Resources
(/isis/citation/CBB001220366/)
Book
Kumar, Deepak;
Damodaran, Vinita;
D'Souza, Rohan;
(2011)
The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia
(/isis/citation/CBB001201905/)
Book
Helen M. Rozwadowski;
(2019)
Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans
(/isis/citation/CBB292578780/)
Article
Bryant, Raymond L;
(2013)
Branding Natural Resources: Science, Violence and Marketing in the Making of Teak
(/isis/citation/CBB001421508/)
Book
Johnson, Michael L.;
(2007)
Hunger for the Wild: America's Obsession with the Untamed West
(/isis/citation/CBB000930096/)
Book
Auricchio, Laura;
Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn;
Pacini, Giulia;
(2012)
Invaluable Trees: Cultures of Nature, 1660--1830
(/isis/citation/CBB001420322/)
Chapter
Keenan-Jones, Duncan;
(2013)
Large-Scale Water Management Projects in Roman Central-Southern Italy
(/isis/citation/CBB001422316/)
Chapter
Giovanni Cherubini;
(2003)
La caccia nel Medioevo
(/isis/citation/CBB390587319/)
Article
Bud, Robert;
(2013)
Life, DNA and the Model
(/isis/citation/CBB001252903/)
Article
Kaufman, Asher;
(2014)
Between Permeable and Sealed Borders: The Trans-Arabian Pipeline and the Arab--Israeli Conflict
(/isis/citation/CBB001550538/)
Article
Meyer, Torsten;
(2018)
Die kameralistische Ökonomie der (Geo-) Ressourcen im 18. Jahrhundert. (The Cameralistic Economy of (Geo) Resources in the 18th Century.)
(/isis/citation/CBB664252493/)
Book
Brady, Lisa M.;
(2012)
War upon the Land: Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during the American Civil War
(/isis/citation/CBB001212118/)
Book
John Brewer;
Frank Trentmann;
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson;
Fromer, Neil Alan;
(2019)
Scarcity in the modern world: history, politics, society and sustainability, 1800-2075
(/isis/citation/CBB608219802/)
Be the first to comment!