Upland Communities
Subtitle: Environment, Population and Social Structure in the Alps since the Sixteenth Century (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 14, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780521034166
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History; Sociology; History: World; Europe; Demography; Europe - General; Alps, Western--Population--History; History / Europe / General; History-Europe - General; Social Science / Demography
First sentence: When Lucien Febvre wrote, in 1922, that 'il n'y a point une sorte d'unite de la montagne, he was reacting against those followers of Ratzel who stressed the similarities found in the social and economic life of upland populations in order to demonstrate that analogous geographical conditions always entail analogous developments.