History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape / / Emilio Sereni.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Sereni, Emilio,
• TeilnehmendeR: Litchfield, R. Burr.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Agnelli ; 350
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (436 p.) :; 74 halftones 24 line illus. 11 tables

Emilio Sereni's classic work is now available in an English language edition. History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape is a synthesis of the agricultural history of Italy in its economic, social, and ecological context, from antiquity to the mid-twentieth century. From his perspective in the Italian tradition of cultural Marxism, Sereni guides the reader through the millennial changes that have affected the agriculture and ecology of the regions of Italy, as well as through the successes and failures of farmers and technicians in antiquity, the middle ages, the Renaissance, and the Industrial Revolution. In this sweeping historical survey, he describes attempts by successive generations to adapt Italy's natural environment for the purposes of agriculture and to respond to its changing ecological problems.History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape first appeared in 1961. At the time of its publication it was a pathbreaking work, parallel in its importance for Italy to Marc Bloc's masterwork of 1931, The Original Characteristics of French Rural History. Sereni invented the concept of the historical "agricultural landscape": an interdisciplinary characterization of rural life involving economic and social history, linguistics, archeology, art history, and ecological studies.Originally published in 1997.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF PLATES AND FIGURES -- FOREWORD TO THE SERIES BY CHARLES S. MAIER -- INTRODUCTION TO THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION -- PREFACE -- I. NATURAL LANDSCAPE AND AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE -- II. ANCIENT ITALY -- 1. The Agricultural System of Tallow and the Landscape of Greek Colonization -- 2. Greek Colonization and the Agricultural Landscape of the Mediterranean Garden in Sicily -- 3. The Etruscan Urban Expansion, the Gallic Invasion, and the Landscape of the Piantata in Central and Northern Italy -- 4. The Landscape Plan of the Roman Conquest -- 5. Roads and Aqueducts in the Roman Agricultural Landscape -- 6. The Roman Torm of the Italian Agricultural Landscape -- 7. The Lands of Common Pasturage, and the Agricultural Landscape of Pasturage in Ancient Rome -- 8. The Rustic Villa and the Landscape of the Plantation -- 9. The "Bel Paesaggio" of the Villa Urbana -- 10. The Sylvan-Pastoral Landscape of the Saltus -- 11. The System of Temporary Clearings, and the Deterioration of the Agricultural Landscape under the Late Empire -- 12. The Barbarian Invasions and the Ruins of the Italian Agricultural Landscape -- III. THE EARLY M I D D L E AGES AND THE FEUDAL ERA -- 13. The Disaggregation of the Agricultural Landscape and Pictorial Landscape in Byzantine Italy -- 14. Castra, Curtes, Massae: Centers of Reorganization of the Agricultural Landscape in Lombard and Byzantine Italy -- 15. The Landscape of the Wildwood, and Hunting in the Early Middle Ages -- 16. The Cultivation of Lesser Cereals, and the Medieval Agricultural Landscape of Open Fields -- 17. The Hilltop Town in the Pastoral-Agricultural Landscape of the Italian Middle Ages -- 18. The Agricultural Landscape of Closed Fields of the Italian Medieval City -- 19. The Medieval Agricultural Landscape of Closed Fields: The Low-Growing Vineyard -- 20. The Medieval Agricultural Landscape of Closed Fields: Kitchen Gardens -- 21. The Arab Invasions, and the Medieval Landscape of the "Mediterranean Garden" -- 22. The Castle in the Agricultural Landscape of Feudal Italy -- 23. The Revival of Plantations of Trees in the Agricultural Landscape of Feudal Italy -- 24. The Age of Improvement and the Great Clearings and Reorganization of the Agricultural Landscape in the Eleventh through Thirteenth Centuries -- 25. The Landscape of Large-Scale Pasturage in the Feudal Era -- IV. THE AGE OF THE COMMUNES -- 26. Feudal Strongholds and Villas in the Landscape of the Early Communal Age -- 27. Individual Clearings, Plantations, and Settlements in the Agricultural Landscape of the Early Communal Period -- 28. Systematization in the Plain, and the Planting of Trees Festooned with Vines -- 29. Individual Tillage, and Extensive Systematization on the Hillsides -- 30. The Suburban Agricultural Landscape -- 31. The Landscape of the Countryside -- 32. The Pastoral Landscape of the Communal Period -- 33. The Landscape of the Woods and Hunting -- 34. The Revival of Cultivation of Grain, and the Landscape of Closed Fields in the Communal Period and the Renaissance -- V. THE AGE OF THE RENAISSANCE -- 35. The Origins of the Contemporary Landscape: Enclosures, Systematization a Rittochino on Hillsides, and the Landscape of Irregular fields a Pigola in the Early Renaissance -- 36. The Landscape of Enclosed Fields in the Plain and Systematization in Porche -- 37. Toward a Redressed Balance of Forage: The Landscape of Enclosed Pastures and Meadows -- 38. Improvements and Irrigation in the Renaissance Agricultural Landscape -- 39. The Irrigated Meadows of Lombardy and the Po Valley in the Age of the Renaissance -- 40. The Origins of the Contemporary Landscape: The Piantata of the Po Valley -- 41. The Agricultural "Bel Paesaggio" of the Italian Renaissance -- 42. The "Bel Paesaggio" in Tuscany -- 43. The "Bel Paesaggio* of the Veneto -- 44. The "Bel Paessagio" of the Italian-Style Villa -- 45. An Agricultural Panorama of the Renaissance: Pastoral Landscapes -- 46. The Landscape of Clearings in Hills and Mountains -- 47. The Deterioration of the Landscape of Hills and Mountains in the Renaissance Period -- 48. Systematization in the Hills and Mountains during the Italian Renaissance -- 49. The Origins of the Contemporary Landscape: Systematization in Irregular Banks (a Ciglioni,) on Hillsides in the Age of the Renaissance -- 50. The Origins of the Contemporary Landscape: Systematization in the Mountains through Lunettes and Grading -- 51. Systematization in the Hills in Terraces, and the "Works of Construction" of the Renaissance Period -- 52. The Origins of the Contemporary Landscape: Road Building, and the Systematization of Hills Plowed ''Crosswise" fa Cavalcapoggioj and "Roundabout" (a Girapoggioj -- 53. Plantations in the Hills in Central and Northern Italy, and the Landscape of Irregular Fields in the Late Renaissance -- 54. The Mediterranean Landscape of Preserves, and the "Mediterranean Garden" -- 55. The Era of the Great Geographical Discoveries: The Spread of Indian Corn, and the Landscape of Agricultural Systems with Continuous Rotation -- VI. THE AGE OF THE COUNTER-REFORMATION AND FOREIGN DOMINATION -- 56. Marshlands and Improvement between the Renaissance and Counter-Reformation: The Landscape of Marshes, Wetlands, and Rice Fields -- 57. Agricultural Systems of Temporary Clearings, and the New Extension of Pastoral Landscapes between the Fifteenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 58. The New Feudalism and the Landscape of the Italian Villa of the Renaissance and Counter-Reformation -- 59. Classic and Romantic Landscape in Italian Reality and Art of the Seventeenth Century -- 60. Open Fields, Farms, and Preserves in the Italian Agricultural Landscape of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 61. The Landscape of Industrial Crops and Agricultural Systems of Continuous Rotation in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 62. Origins of the Contemporary Landscape: The Southern Landscape of the "Mediterranean Garden" -- 63. The Alberata of Tuscany, Umbria, and the Marche, and Systematization of Fields with Trees in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 64. The Piantata of the Po Valley in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 65. Ecclesiastical Mortmain, and the Disordered Italian Landscape of the Age of Enlightenment -- VII. THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENED DESPOTISM AND REFORMS -- 66. The Landscape of the Eighteenth-Century Villa, and the Italian Mode of Development of Capitalism in the Countryside -- 67. The Landscape of Farms in the Po Valley, and the Crisis of Sharecropping in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century -- 68. The Age of Reforms in Italy, and the Agricultural Landscape of Closed Fields in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century -- 69. Capitalism in the Countryside: Deforestation, Clearings, and Erosion of the Mountainous Landscape in the Age of Reforms -- 70. The Landscape of Landfills: Colmate di Piano in Tuscany during the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century -- 71. The Origins of the Contemporary Landscape: Systematization in the Hills in Banks and Terraces -- 72. Hillsides Plowed a Tagliapoggio in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century -- VIII. THE AGE OF THE RISORGIMENTO -- 73. The Po Valley Landscape of Irrigated Meadows, and Cultivation with Continuous Rotation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- 74. The Landscape of the Po Valley: From the Sharecropping Farm to the Great Capitalistic Rented Holding -- 75. Landfills in the Hills, and Arrangements a Prode and a Spina in Tuscany in the Age of the Risorgimento -- 76. The Overthrow of Feudalism in the South, and the Agricultural Landscape of Open Fields in the Age of the Risorgimento -- IX. ITALIAN UNIFICATION -- 77. The Railroads in the Italian Agricultural Landscape in the Age of the Risorgimento and Italian Unification -- 78. The Piantata in the Dryer Zones of the Po Valley in the Age of the Risorgimento and Italian Unification -- 79. The Agricultural Landscape of the Irrigated Zones of the Po Valley, and Rice Fields -- 80. The Alberata of Tuscany, Umbria, and the Marche in the Risorgimento and Italian Unification -- 81. The Landscapes of the South in the Risorgimento and Italian Unification -- 82. The Landscape o/Campi a Pigola: Irregular Fields in United Italy -- 83.

Improvements in the Po Valley, and the Agricultural Landscape of the Larga in United Italy -- X. AN AGRICULTURAL PANORAMA OF CONTEMPORARY ITALY -- 84. The Agricultural Landscapes of Contemporary Italy -- GLOSSARY -- INDEX