FHS Article Wins Alice Hamilton Prize

The American Society for Environmental History has selected Richard Keyser’s “The Transformation of Traditional Woodland Management: Commercial Sylviculture in Medieval Champagne" for the Alice Hamilton Prize for best article in environmental history. The article was published in the Summer 2009 (32:3) issue of French Historical Studies.

The article, which explores medieval economic growth in Champagne and the late medieval and early modern French state’s role in shaping forest exploitation, is available for download at no cost.

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