History of the Alps, 1500 - 1900 : Environment, Development, and Society.

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 -- 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 -- Navigable canal near the Preintaler Gscheidl -- View of a hotel -- Tribute from an Alpine pasture at the church of Nendaz -- Mountain farm at Hüttau -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Map 7.1: The duchy of Savoy in the late eighteenth century -- Map 7.2: The Freestate of the Three Leagues before 1797 -- Map 7.3: The duchy of Carinthia in the late eighteenth century -- Map 8.1: Elements of agrarian structure in the Alps and in surrounding areas, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Tables -- Table 2.1: Indications of total Alpine population levels, 1500 -1900 -- Table 2.2: Population in Alpine regions, 1500 -1900 -- Table 2.3: Population growth and density in Alpine regions, 1500 -1900 -- Table 2.4: Population growth and density in the Alps and in surrounding areas,1500 -1900 -- Table 3.1: Introduction of corn and potatoes in the Alpine regions, 1500 -1900 -- Table 4.1: Cities with 5000 or more inhabitants, in the Alps and at the foot of theAlps, 1500 -1800 -- Table 4.2: Cities and urban population in the Alps according to altitude, 1600 -1800 -- Table 4.3: Cities and urban population in the Alps according to size, 1800 -1900.

Table 4.4: Cities and urban population in the Alps according to altitude, 1800 -1900 -- Table 7.1: Household and family in Savoy-Piedmont and in the Grisons, 1561-1832 -- Table 7.2: Household and economic status in Carinthia and in the Grisons, 1750 -1798 -- Table A.1: Percentages of agricultural workers in Alpine regions, 1870 and 1900 -- Table A.2: Farm sizes in Alpine regions, 1900 -- Table A.3: Agricultural labor force in Alpine regions, 1900 -- Table A.4: Illegitimacy rates in Alpine regions, 1870 and 1900 -- Table A.5: Farm size, agricultural labor force, and illegitimacy rates in Alpine regions of Hapsburg Austria by district, 1870 and 1900 -- Table A.6: Cities with 5000 or more inhabitants in the Alps, 1870 and 1900 -- Back Cover.

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