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Record Nr.

UNISA996683079703316

Autore

Daheur Jawad

Titolo

Habsburg Natures : Imperial Governance and Environment in Central Europe, 1850-1918

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

1-83695-229-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 pages)

Collana

Environment in History: International Perspectives Series ; ; v.27

Altri autori (Persone)

LučićIva

Disciplina

943.6044

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Habsburg Natures -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I.  (Inter/Intra) Imperial Entanglements -- Chapter 1. Riparian Rivalries and River Politics -- Chapter 2. Improving Landscapes, Peoples and the Habsburg Empire -- Chapter 3. Logging the Borderlands -- Part II.  Cooperation and Conflict -- Chapter 4. Natural Resources as the Empire's (Dis)Integrative Force -- Chapter 5. Get Out of Our Forest! -- Chapter 6. The Demilitarization of the Croatian-Slavonian Military Border as an Example of Imperial S -- Part III.  Engineering Nature -- Chapter 7. A Natural History of the Global Habsburg Empire -- Chapter 8. The Golden Age of the Bark Beetle -- Part IV. Managing Resources -- Chapter 9. Resource Governance in Time of Drought -- Chapter 10. Fuelling the Diversity -- Chapter 11 The Industrialization of Forests -- Conclusion -- Index -- Blank Page.

Sommario/riassunto

An exacting analysis of the correlation between the environment and power, Habsburg Natures explores how the natural world fundamentally shaped the political and economic landscape within the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1850 to 1918.