History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape /

History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape / / Emilio Sereni.

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 t...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (436 p.) :; 74 halftones 24 line illus. 11 tables
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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

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