Forests and French sea power, 1660-1789 /
By choosing to concentrate upon discovering what forest resources were available to the French navy during the ancien régime and what use it was able to make of them, Mr. Bamford has not only provided the first monograph on that subject in the English language, but has gone far toward explaining wh...
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| Formaat: | Licensed eBooks |
| Taal: | Engels |
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[Toronto] :
University of Toronto Press,
1956.
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| Online toegang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt15jvwtz |
Inhoudsopgave:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- I. Dynastic Policy and French Maritime Power
- II. Masts, Ship Timber, and French Forest Law
- III. Timber Cuts and Contracts
- IV. Transport of Naval Timber and Masts
- V. Forest Depletion
- VI. Domestic Timber Shortage and the Navy
- VII. The Quest for Domestic and Colonial Masts and Spars
- VIII. The Northern Market in Naval Stores
- IX. Merchant Shipping and the Timber Problem
- X. Black Sea and North American Markets after 1776
- XI. Conclusions
- Sources
- Index