Caroline Ford

Landscape and the environment in French historical and geographical thought: new directions.

Histoire de la géographie française de 1870 à nos jours, by P C (Paris, 1998) Pour une histoire de l’environnement: Travaux du programme interdisciplinaire de recherche sur l’environnement, edited by C B and R D (Paris, 1993) Les Français dans leur environnement, edited by R N-G and L D (Paris, 1996) Luminous Debris: Reflecting on Vestige in Provence and Languedoc, by G S (Berkeley, Calif., 1999)

Nature’s Fortunes: New Directions in the Writing of European Environmental History*

* The books under review are Michael Bess, The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960–2000 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), pp. xix 369,

Museums after Empire in Metropolitan and Overseas France

18.00 (paper); David Blackbourn, The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany (London: Jonathan Cape, 2006), pp. xiii 497, £30.00; Florian Charvolin, L’invention de l’environnement en France: Chroniques anthropologiques d’une institutionnalisation (Paris: La Decouverte, 2003), pp. 134, €15; Mark Cioc, The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815–2000 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002), pp. xiv 263,

The Paris Housing Crisis and a Social Revolution in Domestic Architecture on the Eve of the First World War

29.95 (cloth),

Creating the nation in provincial France : religion and political identity in Brittany

24.95 (paper); Alain Corbin, L’homme dans le paysage: Entretien avec Jean Lebrun (Paris: Editions Textuel, 2001), pp. 190, €26.68; A. Corvol-Dessert, ed., Les forets d’occident du moyen âge a nos jours (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2004), pp. 300, €28; Robert Delort and Francois Walter, Histoire de l’environnement europeen (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2001), pp. 352, €28.50; Richard Drayton, Nature’s Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the “Improvement” of the World (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000), pp. xxi 346,

Divided houses : religion and gender in modern France

40.00 (cloth); Christopher Ely, This Meager Nature: Landscape and National Identity in Imperial Russia (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002), pp. xi 278,

Nature, culture and conservation in france and her colonies 1840-1940

42.00; Thomas M. Lekan, Imagining the Nation in Nature: Landscape Preservation and German Identity, 1885–1945 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004), pp. vi 334,

Reforestation, Landscape Conservation, and the Anxieties of Empire in French Colonial Algeria

49.95; Christof Mauch, ed., Nature in German History (New York: Berg, 2004), pp. vi 136,

Violence and the Sacred in Nineteenth-Century France

40.00; Stuart McCook, States of Nature; Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760–1940 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002), pp. xiv 201,

Religion and the Politics of Cultural Change in Provincial France: The Resistance of 1902 in Lower Brittany

50.00 (cloth),