Nature and history in modern Italy / edited by Marco Armiero and Marcus Hall ; with a foreword by Donald Worster.

Other author Armiero, Marco, 1966-
Other author Hall, Marcus, 1959-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAthens : Ohio University Press,
Descriptionxvi, 295 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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Subjects
Landscapes--Social aspects. --Italy. --History.
Nature--Effect of human beings on. --Italy. --History.
Human ecology--History. --Italy. --Human ecology. --History.
Pollution--Italy. --History.
Urbanization--Environmental aspects. --Italy. --History.
Environmentalism--Italy. --History.
Italy--Environmental conditions.
Italy--History. --19th century.
Italy--History. --20th century.
Italy--Social conditions.

SeriesOhio University Press series in ecology and history
Ohio University Press series in ecology and history. ^A472496
Contents Il bel paese : an introduction / Marco Armiero and Marcus Hall -- Foundations -- The distinctive character of Italian environmental history / Piero Bevilacqua -- Upside-down landscapes : seismicity and seismic disasters in Italy / Emanuela Guidoboni -- Moving ground : Vesuvius and the Nola mudslides of the nineteenth century / Walter Palmieri -- Environmental imperialism in Sardinia : pesticides and politics in the struggle against malaria / Marcus Hall -- Commons and forests -- The decline of the commons and the environmental balance in early modern Italy / Gabriella Corona -- Forest visions in early modern Italy / Bruno Vecchio -- Environmental heritage of a past cultural landscape : alder woods in the upper Aveto Valley of the northwestern Apennines / Roberta Cevasco -- Act locally, think nationally : a brief history of access rights and environmental conflicts in Fascist Italy / Wilko Graf von Hardenberg -- Pollution, industry, and urban environment -- Dealing with industrial pollution in Italy, 1880-1940 / Simone Neri Serneri -- Petrochemical modernity in Sicily / Salvatore Adorno -- The Seveso disaster legacy / Laura Centemeri -- Landscape, culture, and environmentalism -- A "natural" capitalism : water and the making of the Italian industrial landscape / Stefania Barca -- Nationalizing the mountains : natural and political landscapes in World War I / Marco Armiero -- Nature preservation and protection in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy, 1880-1950 / Luigi Piccioni.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2010019101
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