This is an innovative analysis of the agrarian world and growth of
government in early modern Germany through the medium of
pre-industrial society's most basic material resource, wood. Paul
Warde offers a regional study of south-west Germany from the late
fifteenth to the early eighteenth century, demonstrating the
stability of the economy and social structure through periods of
demographic pressure, warfare and epidemic. He casts light on the
nature of 'wood shortages' and societal response to environmental
challenge, and shows how institutional responses largely based on
preventing local conflict were poor at adapting to optimise the
management of resources. Warde further argues for the inadequacy of
models that oppose the 'market' to a 'natural economy' in
understanding economic behaviour. This is a major contribution to
debates about the sustainability of peasant society in early modern
Europe, and to the growth of ecological approaches to history and
historical geography.
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