Nature and history in modern Italy / / edited by Marco Armiero and Marcus Hall ; with a foreword by Donald Worster.
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| Superior document: | Ohio University Press series in ecology and history |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Athens : : Ohio University Press,, [2010] 2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (314 pages) :; illustrations, maps. |
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Table of 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.