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Dr Paul Warde Centre for History and Economics
Telephone: +44 (0)1223 333197 / 338149 Fax: +44 (0)1223 333198 e-mail: psw1000@hermes.cam.ac.uk Projects: Paul Warde works on the environmental, economic and social history of early modern Europe. His interests focus in particular upon the use of wood as a fundamental resource in pre-industrial society, and the implications for property rights, legal change, state development, quality of life, economic change and the management of resources (especially common lands) that arise from this basic characteristic of the early modern world. He is currently engaged in research wood and the fuel economy of England before 1850; on village-level economic institutions in early modern south-west Germany, especially field-systems, credit and poor relief; a reconstruction of energy consumption in England & Wales, and Germany, between the seventeenth century and the present day; horse and oxen use in nineteenth-century European agriculture; the comparative energy history of Europe; the history of European woodlands; system theories in German agrarian history from Albrecht Thaer (c.1810) to the present; theories of environmental history; and the economic and ecological implications of common pool resources in the pre-industrial period. His book Ecology, economy and state formation in early modern Germany, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2006. He is co-editor, along with Tine de Moor and Leigh Shaw-Taylor, of The management of common land in north west Europe ca.1500-1850 CORN Publication Series Nr.8 (Turnhout, 2002). Other recent publications include 'Subsistence and sales: the peasant economy of Württemberg in the seventeenth century', in Economic History Review LIX (2006). Forthcoming articles include studies of fear of wood shortage and the reality of the woodland in Europe, 1450-1850 (in History Workshop Journal); and with Sverker Sörlin, on the current direction of environmental history (in Environmental History). Paul runs the project Documenting Environmental Change at the Centre for History and Economics. This includes a website providing news on research and resources in environmental history at www.envdoc.org. In 2005-6 in collaboration with Sverker Sörlin, Professor for Environmental History at the Royal Institute for Technology in Stockholm, Paul organised a series of meetings and conference on the theme of ‘The Uses of Environmental History’. He and Sverker Sörlin are producing an edited volume on environmental history that will appear in 2007. He is a lecturer at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and directs studies in history there. Paul is also Book Review editor for the On-line information service H-Environment Teaching Paul teaches British and European Early Modern History (Papers 9 and 16 of Part I of the Cambridge Historical Tripos); and the new paper on Population, Development and Environment (Paper 6 of Part II of the Cambridge Historical Tripos), examining policy responses to demographic and environmental challenges in Britain, China, South Asia and eastern Africa, 1800-the present. Publications Books
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