{"product_id":"conservation-s-roots-managing-for-sustainability-in-preindustrial-europe-1100-1800-9781789206920","title":"Conservation’s Roots: Managing for Sustainability","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tThe ideas and practices that comprise “conservation” are often assumed to have arisen within the last two centuries. However, while conservation today has been undeniably entwined with processes of modernity, its historical roots run much deeper. Considering a variety of preindustrial European settings, this book assembles case studies from the medieval and early modern eras to demonstrate that practices like those advocated by modern conservationists were far more widespread and intentional than is widely acknowledged. As the first book-length treatment of the subject, \u003cem\u003eConservation’s Roots\u003c\/em\u003e provides broad social, historical, and environmental context for the emergence of the nineteenth-century conservation movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“The volume reflects great editorial care. Almost every study supports the main thesis of the collection, which is that while there was a clear tendency for sustainable forest (land) and water resource management in pre-modern times, this motivation was social and economic, rather than ecological. Not only do the papers implicitly communicate with each other, but they also refer to each other, pointing to the commonalities or differences in practices in the areas studied. With very few exceptions, the papers draw on archival material that in many cases had seldom been studied previously, and even those that build on printed sources raise new perspectives and pose different questions than previous authors. Accordingly, the volume will undoubtedly become one of the key references in pre-modern sustainability studies.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Historical Studies on Central Europe\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“The essays in\u003c\/em\u003e Conservation’s Roots \u003cem\u003erepresent a thoughtful and compelling contribution to the field. They continue the scholarly conversation about the importance of pre-modern history to understanding sustainability, conservation, and the degrees to which people have both influenced their environments and understood the scale and import of their interventions.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Ellen Arnold\u003c\/strong\u003e, Ohio Wesleyan University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This collection is valuable and timely, with fresh insights in abundance. It will serve as an excellent reader for students and scholars of environmental history, as both a contribution to scholarship in its own right and a point of entry into the specialist literature.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Angus J L Winchester\u003c\/strong\u003e, Lancaster University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRichard Keyser and Abigail P. Dowling\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart I. Multiple-Use Resource Management in Preindustrial Societies: Pigs, Parks, Game, and Heathlands\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Controlling Pigs in Countryside and City for Sustainable Medieval Agriculture\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDolly Jørgensen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Sustainability and Natural Resource Management at Hesdin, Artois, France, 1302–1329\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAbigail P. Dowling\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Eating Your Game and Having It Too: North-Central Italian Conservation of Game Animals and Birds, 1300–1550\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCristina Arrigoni Martelli\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Sustaining Premodern Heathlands (1400–1750): Collective Knowledge and Peasant Communities in the Campine, Belgium\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMaïka De Keyzer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart II. The Governance of Aquatic Resources: Fishing and Flowing Freshwater\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Fisheries Regulations in Late Medieval Europe: Authorities, Concerns, Measures\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRichard C. Hoffmann\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Managing the Lake Constance Fisheries, ca. 1350–1800\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMichael Zeheter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Keep the Water Flowing! Premodern Swedish Water Management\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eEva Jakobsson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart III. The Deep Roots of Woodland Conservation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Medieval Roots of Woodland Conservation: Northern France and Northwestern Europe, ca. 1100-1500\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRichard Keyser\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Managing Southern French Forests under—and before—Colbert: Between Law and Custom, ca. 1500-1700\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSébastien Poublanc\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e Conserving the ‘Vert’ in Early Modern Sherwood Forest\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSara Morrison\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e Sustainability Prior to Carlowitz’s \u003cem\u003eSylvicultura\u003c\/em\u003e? A Study Based on Cases from Schleswig-Holstein\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eOliver Auge\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e Traditional Woodland Management, Forest Legislation, and Modern Nature Conservation in East-Central Europe\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePéter Szabó\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eAfterword\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePaul Warde\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042560803159,"sku":"9781789206920","price":96.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789206920.jpg?v=1750954645","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/conservation-s-roots-managing-for-sustainability-in-preindustrial-europe-1100-1800-9781789206920","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}