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Revolution and Environment in Southern France - Peasants, Lords, and Murder in the Corbieres 1780-1830 (Hardcover)
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Revolution and Environment in Southern France - Peasants, Lords, and Murder in the Corbieres 1780-1830 (Hardcover)
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In the forty years after the Revolution of 1789, the peasants and
former seigneurs of the isolated and arid region of the Corbieres,
Languedoc, fought a protracted battle over the consequences of
revolutionary change. Central to this conflict was control of the
rough hillsides or garrigues used as sheep pastures, which the
poorer peasantry seized and cleared. This social conflict
culminated in the murder of two nobles by a band of villagers in
the aftermath of the Revolution of 1830. Professor McPhee's book
highlights two significant new perspectives on the Revolution of
1789. First, the actions of poorer peasants in massive
land-clearance occasioned an impassioned debate about the
environmental consequences of uncontrolled tree-felling. Secondly,
much of the cleared land was used for vineyards, suggesting the
importance of far-reaching changes initiated by the poorest
sections of the community.
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