1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460708303321

Autore

Bamford Paul W (Paul Walden), <1921->

Titolo

Forests and French sea power, 1660-1789 / / Paul Walden Bamford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Toronto, Ontario] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1956

©1956

ISBN

1-4426-5655-7

1-4426-3324-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

359.8320944

Soggetti

Timber

Forests and forestry - France

Electronic books.

France History, Naval

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I. Dynastic Policy and French Maritime Power -- II. Masts, Ship Timber, and French Forest Law -- III. Timber Cuts and Contracts -- IV. Transport of Naval Timber and Masts -- V. Forest Depletion -- VI. Domestic Timber Shortage and the Navy -- VII. The Quest for Domestic and Colonial Masts and Spars -- VIII. The Northern Market in Naval Stores -- IX. Merchant Shipping and the Timber Problem -- X. Black Sea and North American Markets after 1776 -- XI. Conclusions -- Sources -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

By choosing to concentrate upon discovering what forest resources were available to the French navy during the ancien régime and what use it was able to make of them, Mr. Bamford has not only provided the first monograph on that subject in the English language, but has gone far toward explaining why France was the loser in the long duel with England for the control of commerce and the extension of empire. Two years of research in the Archives Nationales and in the Archives de la Marine in Paris, Toulon, and Rochefort enabled him to draw on contemporary sources of information of which little, if any, use has been made before, and a further year of research in the libraries of New



York City, particularly in the rich Proudfit Naval Collection, also yielded new material. It is Mr. Bamford's achievement to have handled this vast store of primary sources with such skill and judgement that the reader, by turning over letters from disgruntled forest proprietors, reports from harassed maîtres on the trickery and recalcitrance of the peasants, instructions from the top echelon of the navy to inspectors in the forests, and a variety bills, receipts, and memoranda, is given at first hand an appreciation of the difficulties faced by the navy in trying to obtain timber and masts of the choice quality required for building ships-of-the-line. The navy had to compete with the merchant marine and with industrial and private users of fuel for supplies that were continually being depleted by mismanagement and by the conversion of forests to arable land. Measures, superficially admirable, for conserving the forests are found on closer examination to be at once over-precise and not properly enforced. Transport, even in a country so abundantly supplied with navigable rivers as France, was expensive and difficult.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450642903321

Autore

Jenkyns Marina

Titolo

The play's the thing : exploring text in drama and therapy / / Marina Jenkyns

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996

ISBN

1-134-82184-0

1-280-60366-6

9786610603664

0-203-12953-9

Descrizione fisica

xii, 244 p

Disciplina

616.89/1523

Soggetti

Drama - Therapeutic use

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-236) and index.



Nota di contenuto

chapter 1 DRAMATHERAPY -- Through the lens of the play -- chapter 2 PLAYING WHERE TWO WORLDS MEET -- chapter 3 THEORY INTO PRACTICE -- Means and methods -- chapter 4 BEGINNING -- Roots by Arnold Wesker -- chapter 5 PAST INTO PRESENT THE WIDER CONTEXT: CLOUD -- Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill / NINE BY CARYL CHURCHILL -- chapter 6 THAT WAY MADNESS LIES: THURSDAY'S CHILD BY -- Thursday's Child by Daphne Thomas / DAPHNE THOMAS -- chapter 7 THE OPPRESSION OF TABOO: GHOSTS BY HENRIK -- Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen / IBSEN -- chapter 8 WALLS WITHIN WALLS SOCIETY, FAMILY AND THE INDIVIDUAL -- A Shaft of Sunlight by Abhijat Joshi -- chapter 9 DEATH AND ACCEPTANCE: RIDERS TO THE SEA BY -- Riders to the Sea by J. M. Synge / J. M. SYNGE -- chapter 10 THE EPILOGUE.