Natural Interests: The Contest Over Environment In Modern France

Challenging the conventional trope that French environmentalism arose after WWII, Caroline Ford argues that a broad environmental consciousness emerged in France much earlier. In response to war, natural disasters, and imperialism, the bourgeoisie, along with politicians, engineers, naturalists, writers, and painters, took up environmental causes.

• | Author: Caroline Ford
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 28, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 296 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674045904
• | ISBN-13: 9780674045903