Invaluable trees : cultures of nature, 1660-1830 / edited by Laura Auricchio, Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook and Giulia Pacini.
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Oxford :
Voltaire Foundation,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Arboreal lives. 'Alone in the forest'? Trees, charcoal and charcoal burners in eighteenth-century France / Hamish Graham ; Conservationism avant la lettre? Public essay competitions on forestry and deforestation in eighteenth-century France / J.L. Caradonna ; Land, logs and liberty: the Revolutionary expansion of the Muséum d'histoire naturelle during the Terror / Paula Young Lee ; 'Cette anarchie dévastatrice': the légende noire of the French Revolution / Peter Mcphee ; Erasmus Darwin's trees / Paul Elliott ; At home with their trees: arboreal beings in the eighteenth-century French imaginary / Giulia Pacini
- 2. Strategic trees. The vocal stump: the politics of tree-felling in Swift's 'On cutting down the old thorn at Market Hill' / Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook ; Tapping nature's bounty: science and sugar maples in the age of improvement / Michael Guenther ; Bourbon renewal at Rambouillet / Meredith Martin ; Assessing the value of fruit trees in the marquis de Fontanes's poem Le Verger / Susan Taylor-Leduc ; Arboreal negotiations, or William Livingston's American perspective on the cultural politics of trees in the Atlantic world / Elizabeth Hyde ; The 'naturalisation' of François André Michaux's North American sylva: patriotism in early American natural history / Lisa Ford
- 3. Arboreal enlightenments. The management of trees and woods in eighteenth-century England / Tom Williamson ; The healing tree / Steven King ; 'I writ these lines on the body of the tree': Jane Barker's arboreal poetics / Nicolle Jordan ; Goethe and forestry / Waltraud Maierhofer ; Disputed value: women and the trees they loved / Paula R. Backscheider ; 'Fatto di Fiemme': Stradivari's violins and the musical trees of the Paneveggio / Aaron S. Allen.