This is an innovative analysis of the agrarian world and growth of government in early modern Germany through the medium of pre-industrial society's most basic

This is an original case study of how a peasant society in early modern Europe sustained its economy, which relied on natural resources. It offers a study of so

Throughout the early modern period, scientific debate and governmental action became increasingly preoccupied with the environment, generating discussion across

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Animals in rural Egypt became enmeshed in social relationships and made possible many tasks otherwise impossible. Rather than focus on what animals represented