1st Edition
An Environmental History of Knowledge and Politics Forestry in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Hungary
Chapter 1 Introducing the Changes
Chapter 2 A History of Value: Forests and Timber as Commodities
Chapter 3 Foresters Building Nation: Nationalism in Hungarian Forestry, 1862-1913
Chapter 4 The Advance of the State in the Forest in and out of War, 1914–1944
Chapter 5 Forestry Programmes between Stalinism and de-Stalinisation, 1945–1956
Chapter 6 Human Lives and Tree Species in Experiments: the Case of István Bánó’s Work with Pine Species
Conclusions
Index
Biography
Róbert Balogh is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Ostrava. His work concerns the historical dimensions of the ongoing climatic and ecological crises, including the impact of professional forest management practices, energy production, food shortages, and dairy production. Taking the Anthropocene as the framework for research questions, Balogh studies these issues in the Middle Danube Valley and colonial South Asia.
Péter Homor is the head of archives at Széchenyi István University in Győr. His main interests include the history of higher agricultural education in Hungary, the professionalization of forestry, and the application of information technology in archival science.
