NEGOTIATED WORLD: THREE CENTURIES OF CHANGE IN A FRENCH ALPINE COMMUNITY. Rosenberg, Harriet G. A Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1988. 234pp, cloth, $30.00. ISBN 0-8020-2640-0. CIP Grades 12 and up Reviewed by Eve Williams Volume 16 Number 6 1988 November The interaction of people with the environment is fascinating, and when you add history to geography you have the story of a community. This is the story of the negotiated world of Abriès, a village in the Queyras Valley in the high Alps close to the Italian border. This book is a synthesis of oral history and research of the Abriès archives by Rosenberg. Abriès is the highest inhabited village in Europe and today boasts but two hundred souls. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries this Briançonnais settlement was an important market town of two thousand inhabitants. Before the French Revolution the inhabitants of Abriès negotiated their physical, political and economic survival. There were corvées (work parties) to build and maintain canals and roads, co-operative creameries (usually run by the women), and special tariffs and laws worked out with the use of paid lobbyists. Harriet G. Rosenberg has written a lively, sympathetic book, which is both analytical and reflective. One does not have to be a geographer or a historian to enjoy this three-century-long case study. It is scholarly without being pedantic. I recommend this book for any geographer. It is written at an adult level, but the index is good, and the resource could be used by high school students when it fits the curriculum. Eve Williams, Dr. L.B. MacNaughton High School, Moncton, N.B.