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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Anthony J. AmatoPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books Dimensions: Width: 16.90cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.812kg ISBN: 9781793608352ISBN 10: 1793608350 Pages: 484 Publication Date: 02 December 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsChapter One: The Map and the Territory Chapter Two: Villages, Frontiers, and Pasts Chapter Three: Thinking Unlike a Mountain: Environment, Pasts, and Presents Chapter Four: Girdling Dracula’s Trees and Sprucing up the Carpathians Chapter Five: Unintended Alliances Chapter Six: Missing the Forest for the Trees: Environment and the Servitudes Dispute Chapter Seven: Environment and Economy Chapter Eight: Rivers: Black, White, Brown, and Tan Chapter Nine: Household, Property, and Economy Chapter Ten: Thick Description of Thin SoilsReviewsDeeply considered and engagingly written, Anthony J. Amato’s environmental history of the Hutsul region in the northeastern Carpathians offers new vistas on the development of a remote, but by no means isolated, mountain area. Amato’s highly learned study offers a rich, multi-layered portrait of how the herders and swidden cultivators residing here made their livings during the nine decades after 1848 in a challenging natural environment and amidst changing biologic, economic, social, and political conditions. Anyone interested in the relationship of mountain communities to their environment will learn much from this book. -- Gary B. Cohen, University of Minnesota Deeply considered and engagingly written, Anthony J. Amato's environmental history of the Hutsul region in the northeastern Carpathians offers new vistas on the development of a remote, but by no means isolated, mountain area. Amato's highly learned study offers a rich, multi-layered portrait of how the herders and swidden cultivators residing here made their livings during the nine decades after 1848 in a challenging natural environment and amidst changing biologic, economic, social, and political conditions. Anyone interested in the relationship of mountain communities to their environment will learn much from this book. -- Gary B. Cohen, University of Minnesota Author InformationAnthony J. Amato is professor in the Social Science Department at Southwest Minnesota State University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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