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Front Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- The Alps: A Historical Space? -- Key questions and the state of the research -- The political construction of territory -- Endnotes -- Population -- Data and collection methods -- Comparing long-term trends -- Endnotes -- Agriculture and Alpiculture -- The intensity differential in the Alps -- Cropping frequency and yields -- The intensification of animal husbandry... --... and of plant cultivation -- Technology -- Endnotes -- Cities -- Statistics in the early modern era -- Acceleration of growth -- The slowing of urban growth -- The nineteenth century -- Endnotes -- Environment and Development -- An intermediate assessment: differentiated growth -- Relations between the Alps and surrounding areas -- History and ecological models -- Endnotes -- Image Gallery -- The location of the Alps -- An Italian mountain -- Map of Italy -- Maize plant -- Homage rendered to Emperor Leopold I in Klagenfurt -- Grenoble and its surroundings -- The Savoyard cadastre -- Law concerning feudal rights -- Hay harvesting below the castle of Hochosterwitz -- Navigable canal near the Preintaler Gscheidl -- View of a hotel -- Tribute from an Alpine pasture at the church of Nendaz -- Mountain farm at Hüttau -- Two Agrarian Structures (Nineteenth Century) -- Farming establishments -- Public order and property -- Inheritance law, collective resources -- Endnotes -- Territories during the Early Modern Period -- Savoy: the duke, the notables -- The Grisons: communes with subjects -- Carinthia: Lord, peasant, servant -- Endnotes -- State Formation and Society -- The European dimension -- Politics as a factor of differentiation -- Rural societies -- Endnotes -- History of the Alps from 1500 to 1900 -- A summary -- Arguments and outlook -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Official statistical sources -- A-Statistics - Austria.