Habsburg Natures
Imperial Governance and Environment in Central Europe, 1850-1918
Series: Environment in History: International Perspectives; 27;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Berghahn Books
- Date of Publication 1 November 2025
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781836952275
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages390 pages
- Size 152x229 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
An exacting analysis of the correlation between the environment and power, Habsburg Natures explores how the natural world fundamentally shaped the political and economic landscape within the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1850 to 1918.
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Within the Habsburg Empire of the late nineteenth century, nature became a central focus of political, economic, and scientific attention. A source of valuable natural resources and a platform for consolidating wider, territorial rule, its management and control was subsumed into a broader system of imperial governance. In this exacting analysis of the correlation between the environment and power, Habsburg Natures explores how the natural world fundamentally shaped the political and economic landscape within the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1850 to 1918. Ranging from forestry and coal-mining to river politics and natural disasters, this volume spotlights how deeply intertwined the histories of environmentalism and empire are.
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Introduction: Towards the Writing of an Environmentally Inspired History of the Late Habsburg Empire
Jawad Daheur and Iva Luc?ic?
Part I: (Inter/Intra) Imperial Entanglements
Chapter 1. Riparian Rivalries and River Politics: How the Danube Question Influenced Diplomatic Relations and Domestic Policies in the Late Habsburg Monarchy
Robert Shields Mevissen
Chapter 2. Improving Landscapes, Peoples and the Habsburg Empire: A Cooperative History of Melioration
Jana Osterkamp
Chapter 3. Logging the Borderlands: Transborder Forest Conflicts and Contestations in the Ottoman and Habsburg Empires in the Nineteenth Century
Selc?uk Dursun
Part II: Cooperation and Conflict
Chapter 4. Natural Resources as the Empire?s (Dis)integrative Force: The Case of Bosnian Timber Exports in the Late Habsburg Empire
Iva Luc?ic?
Chapter 5. Get Out of Our Forest! Rural Societies, National Mobilization, State-Building and Modern Forestry in Late-Habsburg and Post-Habsburg Transylvania
Ga?bor Egry
Chapter 6. The Demilitarization of the Croatian-Slavonian Military Border as an Example of Imperial State Forest Management
Robert Skenderovic?
Part III: Engineering Nature
Chapter 7. A Natural History of the Global Habsburg Empire: Indian Mongooses and the Production, Circulation and Management of Animal Knowledge in the Adriatic Periphery
Wolfgang Go?derle
Chapter 8. The Golden Age of the Bark Beetle: Aristocratic Landowners, Imperial Governance and the Ips typographus in the S?umava Region (1868?1876)
Kristy?na Kaucka?
Part IV: Managing Resources
Chapter 9. Resource Governance in Time of Drought: Conflicts over Fodder Exports in Austria-Hungary at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Jawad Daheur
Chapter 10. Fuelling the Diversity: A Regional Perspective on Coal in the Late Austro-Hungarian Empire
Se?gole?ne Plyer
Chapter 11. The Industrialization of Forests: The 1852 Imperial Forest Act as an Intervention Towards a Modern Forest Regime
Simone Gingrich and Martin Schmid
Conclusion: Late Habsburg History Revisited
Jawad Daheur and Iva Luc?ic?
Index
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