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Title:

Invaluable trees : cultures of nature, 1660-1830 / edited by Laura Auricchio, Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook and Giulia Pacini.

Publisher:

Voltaire Foundation,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xi, 360 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Forests and forestry--History--History--17th century.
Forests and forestry--History--History--18th century.
Forests and forestry--History--History--19th century.
Human ecology--History--17th century.
Human ecology--History--18th century.
Human ecology--History--19th century.

Other Authors:

Auricchio, Laura.
Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn.
Pacini, Giulia.
Voltaire Foundation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-354) and index.

Contents:

3. 'Fatto di Fiemme': Stradivari's violins and the musical trees of the Paneveggio / 'Alone in the forest'? Trees, charcoal and charcoal burners in eighteenth-century France / Aaron S. Allen. Conservationism avant la lettre? Public essay competitions on forestry and deforestation in eighteenth-century France / J.L. Caradonna ; Land, logs and liberty: the Revolutionary expansion of the Musâeum d'histoire naturelle during the Terror / Paula Young Lee ; 'Cette anarchie dâevastatrice': the lâegende noire of the French Revolution / Peter Mcphee ; Erasmus Darwin's trees / Paul Elliott ; At home with their trees: arboreal beings in the eighteenth-century French imaginary / Giulia Pacini -- 2. Strategic trees. The vocal stump: the politics of tree-felling in Swift's 'On cutting down the old thorn at Market Hill' / Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook ; Tapping nature's bounty: science and sugar maples in the age of improvement / Michael Guenther ; Bourbon renewal at Rambouillet / Meredith Martin ; Assessing the value of fruit trees in the marquis de Fontanes's poem Le Verger / Susan Taylor-Leduc ; Arboreal negotiations, or William Livingston's American perspective on the cultural politics of trees in the Atlantic world / Elizabeth Hyde ; The 'naturalisation' of Franðcois Andrâe Michaux's North American sylva: patriotism in early American natural history / Lisa Ford -- 3. Arboreal enlightenments. The management of trees and woods in eighteenth-century England / Tom Williamson ; The healing tree / Steven King ; 'I writ these lines on the body of the tree': Jane Barker's arboreal poetics / Nicolle Jordan ; Goethe and forestry / Waltraud Maierhofer ; Disputed value: women and the trees they loved / Paula R. Backscheider ; 'Fatto di Fiemme': Stradivari's violins and the musical trees of the Paneveggio / Aaron S. Allen.

Series:

SVEC ; 2012:08.

ISBN:

072941048X (pbk.)
9780729410489 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)796277367

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)