LEADER 05698nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910786209303321 005 20230103201931.0 010 $a1-935978-13-6 024 7 $aheb40110 035 $a(CKB)2670000000346916 035 $a(EBL)3416987 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000686539 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11451110 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000686539 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10734588 035 $a(PQKB)10933118 035 $a(OCoLC)797855779 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse5413 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3416987 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10561047 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL797842 035 $a(OCoLC)923514368 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3416987 035 $a(dli)heb40110.0001.001 035 $a(MiU)MIU401100001001 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000346916 100 $a20090130d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHistory of the Alps, 1500-1900 $eenvironment, development, and society /$fJon Mathieu ; translated from the German by Matthew Vester 205 $aFirst English edition. 210 $aMorgantown, W. Va. $cWest Virginia University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (iii, 260 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) $cillustrations (some color), maps 300 $aOriginally published as Geschichte der Alpen, 1500-1900. German ed., 1998. 311 0 $a1-933202-41-6 311 0 $a1-933202-34-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Front Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""The Alps: A Historical Space?""; ""Key questions and the state of the research""; ""The political construction of territory""; ""Endnotes""; ""Population""; ""Data and collection methods""; ""Comparing long-term trends""; ""Endnotes""; ""Agriculture and Alpiculture""; ""The intensity differential in the Alps""; ""Cropping frequency and yields""; ""The intensification of animal husbandry . . .""; "". . . and of plant cultivation""; ""Technology""; ""Endnotes""; ""Cities""; ""Statistics in the early modern era""; ""Acceleration of growth"" 327 $a""The slowing of urban growth"" ""The nineteenth century""; ""Endnotes""; ""Environment and Development""; ""An intermediate assessment: differentiated growth""; ""Relations between the Alps and surrounding areas""; ""History and ecological models""; ""Endnotes""; ""Image Gallery""; ""The location of the Alps""; """"An Italian mountain""""; ""Map of Italy""; ""Maize plant""; ""Homage rendered to Emperor Leopold I in Klagenfurt""; ""Grenoble and its surroundings""; ""The Savoyard cadastre""; ""Law concerning feudal rights""; ""Hay harvesting below the castle of Hochosterwitz"" 327 $a""Politics as a factor of differentiation""""Rural societies""; ""Endnotes""; ""History of the Alps from 1500 to 1900""; ""A summary""; ""Arguments and outlook""; ""Appendices""; ""Bibliography""; ""Official statistical sources""; ""A-Statistics Austria""; ""CH-Statistics Switzerland""; ""F-Statistics France""; ""FL-Statistics Principality of Liechtenstein""; ""I-Statistics Italy""; ""Selected literature""; ""Index""; ""Maps""; ""Map 1.1: Physical relief of the Alps""; ""Map 1.2: Political divisions in the Alps, before 1790 and in 1900"" 327 $a""Map 2.1: Regions whose surface area is 75-100% Alpine""""Map 3.1: Forms of agriculture in the Alps, ca. 1900, according to de Martonne""; ""Map 4.1: Cities with 5000 or more inhabitants, in the Alps and surrounding areas, 1500""; ""Map 4.2: Cities with 5000 or more inhabitants, in the Alps and surrounding areas, 1800""; ""Map 4.3: The area surrounding Innsbruck, 1928""; ""Map 6.1: Medium and large farms in Alpine regions and districts, 1900""; ""Map 6.2: Agricultural servants in Alpine regions and districts, 1900""; ""Map 6.3: Illegitimacy rates in Alpine regions and districts, 1900"" 327 $a""Map 7.1: The duchy of Savoy in the late eighteenth century"" 330 $a"In the 1700s, Jean-Jacques Rousseau celebrated the Alps as the quintessence of the triumph of nature over the "horrors" of civilization. Now available in English, History of the Alps, 1500-1900: Environment, Development, and Society provides a precise history of one of the greatest mountain range systems in the world. Jon Mathieu's work disproves a number of commonly held notions about the Alps, positioning them as neither an inversion of lowland society nor a world apart with respect to Europe. Mathieu's broad historical portrait addresses both the economic and sociopolitical - exploring the relationship between population levels, development, and the Alpine environment, as well as the complex links between agrarian structure, society, and the development of modern civilization. More detailed analysis examines the relationship between various agrarian structures and shifting political configurations, several aspects of family history between the late Middle Ages and the turn of the twentieth century, and exploration of the Savoy, Grisons, and Carinthia regions."--Cover description. 606 $aEconomic development$zAlps$xHistory 607 $aAlps$xHistory 607 $aAlps$xEconomic conditions 607 $aAlps$xEnvironmental conditions 607 $aAlps$xPopulation 615 0$aEconomic development$xHistory. 676 $a949.4/7 700 $aMathieu$b Jon$0876949 701 $aVester$b Matthew A$g(Matthew Allen).$01533574 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786209303321 996 $aHistory of the Alps, 1500-1900$93780639 997 $aUNINA