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The State in the Forest: Contested Commons in the Nineteenth Century Venetian Alps (2019)

Bonan, Giacomo (Author)

White Horse Press
Publication date: 2019
Language: English

ISBN: 9781912186082

Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 240

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Trade Timber Science and society Science and government Natural resources Environmental history Raw materials Forests and forestry 19th century Italy Alps (Europe)

The State in the Forest uses a case study of conflict over use of wood - the principal source of energy and the primary raw material at the time - to offer an environmental history of the nineteenth century 'great transformation'. The focus is on Cadore, a supposedly peripheral area that was, in fact, at the core of the wood economy. The region comprises several valleys of the Eastern Italian Alps that constituted the main timber supply basin of Venice and other cities of the Veneto plain. With vivid and in-depth description of the role of forest resources for both local communities and state apparatus, the book sheds new light on key aspects of the nineteenth century agrarian world: the debate on wood shortage and the rise of scientific forestry; the social and environmental consequences of Napoleonic administrative reforms; the ambivalent relationship between privatisation of common lands and the restrictions imposed by state authorities on common and customary activities; the reorganisation of timber trade networks during the first steps of the industrial transition in continental Europe. Local socio-economic dynamics illuminate the interrelations between the macro and micro scales, showing how general transformations were perceived and experienced on the ground and how local actors were both subjects and agents of these events.

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Review Giacomo Parrinello (2022) Review of "The State in the Forest: Contested Commons in the Nineteenth Century Venetian Alps". Environment and History (pp. 187-189). unapi

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