{"product_id":"invaluable-trees-cultures-of-nature-16601830-9780729410489","title":"Invaluable Trees  Cultures of Nature 16601830","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe collection ˝focuses on the actual tree, apprehended in its full materiality˝ in lieu of the metaphorical or symbolic treatment of trees, which sets it apart from earlier works of criticism on trees in the eighteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003eISLE\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe plurality of the Enlightenment is a key organizing theme: the editors situate the volume within a growing literature that sees vitalism and sentiment in Enlightenment thought alongside detachment and classification.\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003eEnvironmental history\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura Auricchio, Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook and Giulia Pacini, Introduction: invaluable trees\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI. Arboreal lives\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHamish Graham, ‘Alone in the forest’? Trees, charcoal and charcoal burners in eighteenth-century France\u003cbr\u003eJ. L. Caradonna, Conservationism \u003cem\u003eavant la lettre,\u003c\/em\u003e? Public essay competitions on forestry and deforestation in eighteenth-century France\u003cbr\u003ePaula Young Lee, Land, logs and liberty: the Revolutionary expansion of the Muséum d’histoire naturelle during the Terror\u003cbr\u003ePeter Mcphee, ‘Cette anarchie dévastatrice’: the \u003cem\u003elégende noire\u003c\/em\u003e of the French Revolution\u003cbr\u003ePaul Elliott, Erasmus Darwin’s trees\u003cbr\u003eGiulia Pacini, At home with their trees: arboreal beings in the eighteenth-century French imaginary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eII. Strategic trees\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Heckendorn Cook, The vocal stump: the politics of tree-felling in Swift’s ‘On cutting down the old thorn at Market Hill’\u003cbr\u003eMichael Guenther, Tapping nature’s bounty: science and sugar maples in the age of improvement\u003cbr\u003eMeredith Martin, Bourbon renewal at Rambouillet\u003cbr\u003eSusan Taylor-Leduc, Assessing the value of fruit trees in the marquis de Fontanes’s poem \u003cem\u003eLe Verger\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eElizabeth Hyde, Arboreal negotiations, or William Livingston’s American perspective on the cultural politics of trees in the Atlantic world\u003cbr\u003eLisa Ford, The ‘naturalisation’ of François André Michaux’s \u003cem\u003eNorth American sylva\u003c\/em\u003e: patriotism in early American natural history\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII. Arboreal enlightenments\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTom Williamson, The management of trees and woods in eighteenth-century England\u003cbr\u003eSteven King, The healing tree\u003cbr\u003eNicolle Jordan, ‘I writ these lines on the body of the tree’: Jane Barker’s arboreal poetics\u003cbr\u003eWaltraud Maierhofer, Goethe and forestry\u003cbr\u003ePaula R. Backscheider, Disputed value: women and the trees they loved\u003cbr\u003eAaron S. Allen, ‘Fatto di Fiemme’: Stradivari’s violins and the musical trees of the Paneveggio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSummaries\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404144058711,"sku":"9780729410489","price":98.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780729410489.jpg?v=1730485548","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/invaluable-trees-cultures-of-nature-16601830-9780729410489","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}