Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Usage -- Introduction -- 1 Forests, the State, and Alpine Communes: Authority and Conflict, 1669-1860 -- 2 "A Question Almost Political": Reforesting and Reclaiming Apine France, c. 1760-1880 -- 3 Sisyphus in Savoie: Restoration Confronts the Village, 1882-1913 -- 4 The Patrimony of the Poor: The Affair of the Mountains of Massat, 1832-1908 -- 5 Old and New in the Eaux et Forêts: Peasants, Forests, and the State in the Twentieth Century, 1898-1937 -- 6 The Coercion of Pedagogy: Associations in Alpine France, 1891-1937 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.