Description
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the relationship between Mediterranean mobile pastoralism and nineteenth-century French forestry through case studies in Provence, French colonial Algeria, and Ottoman Anatolia.
Trade Review"As politically oriented environmental history,
Nomad’s Land reconstructs the broad field within which French forestry policy developed and was applied, showing thereby how conservationism both fueled, and was dependent upon, shifting power relationships at the state and local levels."—Patrick Young,
Journal of Modern History"Duffy provides a concise and thought-provoking assessment of the decline of Mediterranean pastoralism in the modern era. She ably introduces the generalist to the regional history of French forest administration. For scholars of the modern Mediterranean,
Nomad’s Land will serve as a culmination of recent developments in several subfields of environmental history, offering them an important opportunity to take stock, to reflect further on important transnational connections, and to chart new paths forward for national and regional histories."—Jackson R. Perry,
Agricultural History"[
Nomad's Land] can serve as a textbook for lecturers and as a reference book for researchers of social and environmental history, rural history, Mediterranean history, French colonialism, Ottoman history and history of pastoralism."—Onur Inal,
Nomadic Peoples“In this succinct and lucidly written book, Andrea Duffy shows how French ideas about forests provided ammunition for sustained campaigns against herders, sheep, goats, and the pastoralist way of life in Mediterranean France, colonial Algeria, and Ottoman Anatolia. An insightful and delightful addition to Mediterranean environmental history.”—J. R. McNeill, professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Department of History at Georgetown University and author of
Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914Table of ContentsList of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Nomad and the Sea
Part 1: People, Place, and Perceptions
1. Land of the Golden Fleece: Mediterranean Pastoralism in a Wider Society
2. Black Sheep: The Intellectual Roots of Mediterranean Environmental Policy
3. Counting Sheep: Pastoralism and the Construction of French Scientific Forestry
Part 2: Growth and Transformation
4. The Forest for the Trees: The Application of French Scientific Forestry around the Mediterranean
5. Against the Grain: The Transformation of Land Use and Property
6. Nature’s Scapegoats: Pastoralists and Natural Disasters
7. Sheep to the Slaughter: Mediterranean Pastoralism and Forestry at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Conclusion: Planting Politics
Notes
Bibliography
Index
