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Nature and History in Modern Italy.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Series in Ecology and History SeriesPublisher: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (356 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780821443477
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Nature and History in Modern ItalyDDC classification:
  • 304.20945
LOC classification:
  • GE160.I8N38 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Il Bel Paese: An Introduction -- Foundations -- Chapter 1. The Distinctive Character of Italian Environmental History -- Chapter 2. Upside-Down Landscapes: Seismicity and Seismic Disasters in Italy -- Chapter 3. Moving Ground: Vesuvius and the Nola Mudslides of the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 4. Environmental Imperialism in Sardinia: Pesticides and Politics in the Struggle against Malaria -- Commons and Forests -- Chapter 5. The Decline of the Commons and the Environmental Balance in Early Modern Italy -- Chapter 6. Forest Visions in Early Modern Italy -- Chapter 7. Environmental Heritage of a Past Cultural Landscape: Alder Woods in the Upper Aveto Valley of the Northwestern Apennines -- Chapter 8. Act Locally, Think Nationally: A Brief History of Access Rights and Environmental Conflicts in Fascist Italy -- Pollution, Industry, and Urban Environment -- Chapter 9. Dealing with Industrial Pollution in Italy, 1880-1940 -- Chapter 10. Petrochemical Modernity in Sicily -- Chapter 11. The Seveso Disaster Legacy -- Landscape, Culture, and Environmentalism -- Chapter 12. A "Natural" Capitalism: Water and the Making of the Italian Industrial Landscape -- Chapter 13. Nationalizing the Mountains: Natural and Political Landscapes in World War I -- Chapter 14. Nature Preservation and Protection in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Italy, 1880-1950 -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Is Italy il bel paese--the beautiful country--where tourists spend their vacations looking for art, history, and scenery? Or is it a land whose beauty has been cursed by humanity's greed and nature's cruelty? The answer is largely a matter of narrative and the narrator's vision of Italy.
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Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Il Bel Paese: An Introduction -- Foundations -- Chapter 1. The Distinctive Character of Italian Environmental History -- Chapter 2. Upside-Down Landscapes: Seismicity and Seismic Disasters in Italy -- Chapter 3. Moving Ground: Vesuvius and the Nola Mudslides of the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 4. Environmental Imperialism in Sardinia: Pesticides and Politics in the Struggle against Malaria -- Commons and Forests -- Chapter 5. The Decline of the Commons and the Environmental Balance in Early Modern Italy -- Chapter 6. Forest Visions in Early Modern Italy -- Chapter 7. Environmental Heritage of a Past Cultural Landscape: Alder Woods in the Upper Aveto Valley of the Northwestern Apennines -- Chapter 8. Act Locally, Think Nationally: A Brief History of Access Rights and Environmental Conflicts in Fascist Italy -- Pollution, Industry, and Urban Environment -- Chapter 9. Dealing with Industrial Pollution in Italy, 1880-1940 -- Chapter 10. Petrochemical Modernity in Sicily -- Chapter 11. The Seveso Disaster Legacy -- Landscape, Culture, and Environmentalism -- Chapter 12. A "Natural" Capitalism: Water and the Making of the Italian Industrial Landscape -- Chapter 13. Nationalizing the Mountains: Natural and Political Landscapes in World War I -- Chapter 14. Nature Preservation and Protection in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Italy, 1880-1950 -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

Is Italy il bel paese--the beautiful country--where tourists spend their vacations looking for art, history, and scenery? Or is it a land whose beauty has been cursed by humanity's greed and nature's cruelty? The answer is largely a matter of narrative and the narrator's vision of Italy.

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