Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. 1. Introducing the Changes
5. Introducing 11
6. Paradoxes in the Forests of the Anthropocene 19
7. Empires 23
8. Timeframe 26
9. Overarching Themes and Roadmap of this Book 28
10. Bibliography 30
11. 2. A History of Value: Forests and Timber as Commodities
12. Introduction 35
13. Legal Framework of Private Property in Forests 38
14. Responses to the Regulations of Forest Management: Cases from Szatmár County 42
15. The Role of Foresters 47
16. Railways and the Timber Economy: Two Cases 51
17. Conclusion 55
18. Bibliography 56
19. 3. Foresters Building Nation: Nationalism in Hungarian Forestry, 1862–1913
20. Introduction 61
21. A Natural Disaster and the Agenda of the Modernising Nation-state 66
22. How Were Hungarian Nationalism and the Professionalisation of Forestry in Hungary Related? 72
23. Conclusions 88
24. Bibliography 90
25. 4. The Advance of the State in the Forest in and out of War, 1914–1944
26. Introduction 97
27. The Demise of Normalcy: Forests as Frontline and as Hinterland 98
28. Post-war in Forestry: Scarcity and Refugees 104
29. New Boundaries between State and Proprietors and the New Geopolitical Imaginary 111
30. Landscape, Discourse and Deprivation: The Case of the Forestry Workers around Debrecen 113
31. Environmental Issues, Conservation and National Landscape 117
32. Jewish Business in Timber and the Holocaust 121
33. Conclusion 123
34. Bibliography 124
35. 5. Forestry Programmes between Stalinism and de-Stalinisation, 1945–1956
36. Stalinist Environmental Policy and Global Historical Change in Central Asia and Central Europe 129
37. The Afforestation Programme as Politics 137
38. Stalinisation and De-Stalinisation in One Country 143
39. Trees and the Afforestation Programme as Local Experience 145
40. Conclusion 151
41. Bibliography 153
42. 6. Human Lives and Tree Species in Experiments : The Case of István Bánó’s Work with Pine Species
43. Introduction 157
44. A Research Project within the Eastern Bloc: Career, Power and Genetics 166
45. Conclusion 172
46. Bibliography 173
47. Conclusions 179
48. Index 183