IUFRO Research Series -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: Factors and Processes in the History of Forest Resources -- 1 Les Ressources Forestières et le Développement Economique de la Vallée Mosane du 11e au 17e Siècle d'après l'Étude du Trafic Fluvial -- 2 'The Coveted Tree': the Industrial Threat to the Vosges Forest in the 16th and 18th Centuries -- 3 The War of the Plants: Botanical Exchange and Agricultural Conquest of the New World during Colonial Times -- 4 The Historic Evolution of the Haitian Forest -- 5 Forests and Forestry Culture in Tuscany in the 18th and 19th Centuries -- 6 Earlier Images of the Amazon in the USA -- 7 The Tree and the Machine: Manufacture, Communities and Institutions in the Woods of Southern Italy -- 8 The Muniellos Forests (Asturias, Spain) in History -- 9 Une Illusion Française: la Pénurie des Ressources Ligneuses, 1814-1914 -- 10 Shortage of Wood? Towards a New Approach in Forest History: the Palatinate in the 19th Century -- 11 Socio-economic Development and Changing Mental Concepts (Re)shaping the Woods in a German Region of Low Mountain Ranges: Contributions of a Study on a Regional Level to the Discussion of Major Issues of Forest History -- 12 Historical Interactions Between Agricultural and Forest Utilization in the Austrian Alps and Their Impact on the Present Forest Condition -- 13 Exploiting the Last Phase of the North European Timber Frontier for the International Market 1890-1914: an Economic-Historical Approach -- 14 'Impossible' Roads and 'Inaccessible' Woods: Aspects and Problems of Wood Transport in the 18th Century, Southern Italy -- 16 Social and Environmental Determining Factors of Forest Fire History: the Case of Eastern Andalusia, 1840-1890 -- 17 Common Woodlands in Mediterranean Societies: Commercial Management Versus Forms of Peasant Resistance in Andalusia (Spain), 1750-1930.

18 Biodiversity Conservation in Central Himalaya: a People's Approach -- 19 People's Struggle Against the Institution of Royal Forest Reserves in England in the 11th-14th Centuries -- 20 In the Wood of Neglect -- 21 Law, Forest Resources and Management of Territory in the Late Middle Ages: Woodlands in Tuscan Municipal Statutes -- 22 A Brief History of Forest Changes in the Sila Greca Mountains -- 23 Economic Culture and Forest Policy in Italy, 1861-1915 -- 24 Forest Policy and Public Forest Production in Spain, 1855-1936 -- 25 Economic Policy and Forest Resources in Spain: the Case of the Province of Pontevedra, 1926-1956 -- 26 The Impact of Five Forest Commissions on the History and Practice of Forestry in British Columbia, Canada -- 27 A Brief History of Italian Forest Policy -- 28 A History of the French Coniferous Forest -- 29 Imagining and Creating Forests in Britain, 1890-1939 -- 30 Some Aspects of Forest Management in Spain from the 16th to the 19th Century -- 31 The Impact of Economic, Social and Political Factors on the Ecology of Small English Woodlands: a Case Study of the Ancient Woods in South Yorkshire, England -- Index.