Farming communities in the Western Alps, 1500-1914 : the enduring bond /

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Author / Creator:Dodgshon, R. A. (Robert A.), author.
Imprint:Cham, Switzerlabd : Springer, [2019]
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Historical Geography and Geosciences
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11895880
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ISBN:9783030163617
303016361X
3030163601
9783030163600
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 27, 2019).
Summary:This monograph explores traditional farming communities in French-speaking areas of the western Alps for the period 1500-1914 and how they endured in such an environment despite the many problems and risks which it posed for their subsistence and welfare. Using an extensive amount of archival material drawn from the relevant regional archives, the book presents a great deal of fresh data. Its central theme is how such communities responded to the opportunities and challenges presented by the highly variegated environment of their setting. The view taken is that their strategies of exploitation stressed diversity and flexibility, mapping the highly varied ecologies and resource opportunities of their setting into these strategies by spreading livelihood and risk as widely as possible. This interpretative framework is developed across all the book's themes: landholding, arable and livestock sectors, use of the commons and, finally, how communities coped with climate-based risks.
Other form:Print version: Dodgshon, R.A. (Robert A.). Farming communities in the Western Alps, 1500-1914. Cham, Switzerlabd : Springer, [2019] 3030163601 9783030163600

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505 0 |a Intro; Preface; Contents; About the Author; Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Plates; 1 Introduction: Traditional Alpine Communities and the Challenge of Long-Term Sustainability; 1.1 Mountain Societies: A Fractured Political Landscape?; 1.2 Living in the Alps: The Fundamental Role of Adaptive Strategies; 1.3 The Alpine Farm Community and its Resource Base: Closed or Open System?; 2 The Landholding Basis of Alpine Farming; 2.1 Framing the Commune; 2.2 Aligning Communes, Settlements and Farming Communities; 2.3 The Farming Community: Steady State or Change? 
505 8 |a 2.4 The Farming Community and its Private Spaces2.5 Field Structures and Layout; 2.6 When Did the Commons Become the Commons?; 2.7 The Shifting Bounds between Private and Communal Space; 3 Face to the Sun: The Exploitation of Arable; 3.1 The Ecology of Arable; 3.2 Who Held Arable?; 3.3 The Diversity of Cropping; 3.4 Cropping Strategies and the Individual Family; 3.5 Alpine Arable: Cropping Strategies and the Challenge of Nutrient Flow; 3.6 Between Scarcity and Abundance; 4 The Ties that Bind: Livestock Farming in the Western Alps, 1500-1914; 4.1 Livestock: The Ties that Bind 
505 8 |a 4.2 Stocking the Commune4.3 Pre-1700 Listing; 4.4 The Eighteenth Century; 4.5 Changes in Stocking 1800-1914; 4.6 Seasonal Stock Listings 1800-1914; 4.7 Regional Stocking Data 1800-1914; 4.8 Changes in Stock Management 1500-1914; 5 The Alps and Their Common Property Rights: Resource, Regulation and Exploitation 1500-1914; 5.1 The Commons: What Did They Have to Offer?; 5.2 Regulating the Commons; 5.3 How Was Entitlement Defined?; 5.4 Disputing the Commons; 5.5 The Exploitation of the Commons: Wood; 5.6 The Exploitation of the Commons: Watering the Ground 
505 8 |a 6 The Alpage of the Western Alps, 1500-1914: Europe's Highest Cultural Landscape6.1 How Alpage was Defined on the Ground?; 6.2 The Ecology of the Alpage; 6.3 Who Controlled the Alpage; 6.4 How was the Alpage Controlled; 6.5 The Alpage: Calculations of Capacity; 6.6 What Use Rights Meant on the Ground; 6.7 How the Alpage Changed; 7 Coping with Risk, 1500-1914; 7.1 Profiling Weather-Based Disasters in the Western Alps; 7.2 Weather-Based Disasters in the Western Alps 1500-1914; 7.3 Risk Minimisation; 7.4 Coping with Risk; 8 Epilogue; Glossary; Bibliography; Index 
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