Edition |
1st English ed. |
Description |
1 online resource (iii, 260 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates :) : illustrations (some color), maps. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
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Project MUSE.
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Note |
Originally published as Geschichte der Alpen, 1500-1900. German ed., 1998. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
""Front Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""The Alps: A Historical Space?""; ""Key questions and the state of the research""; ""The political construction of territory""; ""Endnotes""; ""Population""; ""Data and collection methods""; ""Comparing long-term trends""; ""Endnotes""; ""Agriculture and Alpiculture""; ""The intensity differential in the Alps""; ""Cropping frequency and yields""; ""The intensification of animal husbandry . . .""; "". . . and of plant cultivation""; ""Technology""; ""Endnotes""; ""Cities""; ""Statistics in the early modern era""; ""Acceleration of growth"" |
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""The slowing of urban growth""""The nineteenth century""; ""Endnotes""; ""Environment and Development""; ""An intermediate assessment: differentiated growth""; ""Relations between the Alps and surrounding areas""; ""History and ecological models""; ""Endnotes""; ""Image Gallery""; ""The location of the Alps""; """"An Italian mountain""""; ""Map of Italy""; ""Maize plant""; ""Homage rendered to Emperor Leopold I in Klagenfurt""; ""Grenoble and its surroundings""; ""The Savoyard cadastre""; ""Law concerning feudal rights""; ""Hay harvesting below the castle of Hochosterwitz"" |
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""Navigable canal near the Preintaler Gscheidl""""View of a hotel""; ""Tribute from an Alpine pasture at the church of Nendaz""; ""Mountain farm at HÃ?ttau""; ""Two Agrarian Structures (Nineteenth Century)""; ""Farming establishments""; ""Public order and property""; ""Inheritance law, collective resources""; ""Endnotes""; ""Territories during the Early Modern Period""; ""Savoy: the duke, the notables""; ""The Grisons: communes with subjects""; ""Carinthia: Lord, peasant, servant""; ""Endnotes""; ""State Formation and Society""; ""The European dimension"" |
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""Politics as a factor of differentiation""""Rural societies""; ""Endnotes""; ""History of the Alps from 1500 to 1900""; ""A summary""; ""Arguments and outlook""; ""Appendices""; ""Bibliography""; ""Official statistical sources""; ""A-Statistics � Austria""; ""CH-Statistics � Switzerland""; ""F-Statistics � France""; ""FL-Statistics � Principality of Liechtenstein""; ""I-Statistics � Italy""; ""Selected literature""; ""Index""; ""Maps""; ""Map 1.1: Physical relief of the Alps""; ""Map 1.2: Political divisions in the Alps, before 1790 and in 1900"" |
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""Map 2.1: Regions whose surface area is 75�100% Alpine""""Map 3.1: Forms of agriculture in the Alps, ca. 1900, according to de Martonne""; ""Map 4.1: Cities with 5000 or more inhabitants, in the Alps and surrounding areas, 1500""; ""Map 4.2: Cities with 5000 or more inhabitants, in the Alps and surrounding areas, 1800""; ""Map 4.3: The area surrounding Innsbruck, 1928""; ""Map 6.1: Medium and large farms in Alpine regions and districts, 1900""; ""Map 6.2: Agricultural servants in Alpine regions and districts, 1900""; ""Map 6.3: Illegitimacy rates in Alpine regions and districts, 1900"" |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Economic development -- Alps -- History.
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Economic development. |
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Alps. |
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History. |
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Alps -- History.
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Alps -- Economic conditions.
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Economic conditions. |
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Alps -- Environmental conditions.
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Environmental conditions. |
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Alps -- Population.
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Population. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Vester, Matthew.
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Added Title |
Geschichte der Alpen, 1500-1900. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009007397
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Other Form: |
1933202343 |
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1933202416 |
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9781933202341 |
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9781933202419 |
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9781935978138 |
ISBN |
9781935978138 (electronic book) |
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1935978136 (electronic book) |
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9781933202341 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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1933202343 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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1933202416 |
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9781933202419 (alkaline paper) |
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