This book spans the gap between two important scholarly traditions - the sociology of peasant protest and the ecologically-oriented study of history. It documents the social and environmental consequences of commercial forestry in the watershed of the Ganges, while focusing wide-ranging peasant struggles in defence of forest rights in this region generally.
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Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Editions-Typ
Illustrationen
maps, tables, bibliography
ISBN-13
978-0-19-562982-8 (9780195629828)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Preface; Introduction; A sociology of domination and resistance; The mountains and their people; Scientific forestry and social change'; Rebellion as custom; Rebellion as confrontation; The march of commercial forestry; Chipko: Social history of an environmental movement; Peasants and 'History'; Bibliography; Index
