The State in the Forest uses a case study of conflict over use of
wood - the principal source of energy and the primary raw material
at the time - to offer an environmental history of the nineteenth
century 'great transformation'. The focus is on Cadore, a
supposedly peripheral area that was, in fact, at the core of the
wood economy. The region comprises several valleys of the Eastern
Italian Alps that constituted the main timber supply basin of
Venice and other cities of the Veneto plain. With vivid and
in-depth description of the role of forest resources for both local
communities and state apparatus, the book sheds new light on key
aspects of the nineteenth century agrarian world: the debate on
wood shortage and the rise of scientific forestry; the social and
environmental consequences of Napoleonic administrative reforms;
the ambivalent relationship between privatisation of common lands
and the restrictions imposed by state authorities on common and
customary activities; the reorganisation of timber trade networks
during the first steps of the industrial transition in continental
Europe. Local socio-economic dynamics illuminate the interrelations
between the macro and micro scales, showing how general
transformations were perceived and experienced on the ground and
how local actors were both subjects and agents of these events.
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