• Nature and history in modern Italy
  • Record Type: Electronic resources : monographic
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: HallMarcus, 1959-
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: ArmieroMarco, 1966-
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    Place of Publication: Athens
    Published: Ohio University Press;
    Year of Publication: c2010
    Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 295 p.)ill., maps. :
    Series: Ohio University Press series in ecology and history
    Subject: Environmentalism - History - Italy -
    Subject: Urbanization - Environmental aspects - Italy -
    Subject: Pollution - History - Italy -
    Subject: Human ecology - History - Italy -
    Subject: Nature - Effect of human beings on - Italy -
    Subject: Landscapes - Social aspects - Italy -
    Subject: Italy - Social conditions -
    Subject: Italy - History - 20th century -
    Subject: Italy - History - 19th century -
    Subject: Italy - Environmental conditions -
    Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780821443477/
    Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
    ISBN: 9780821443477electronic bk.
    ISBN: 082144347Xelectronic bk.
    ISBN: 9780821419151hbk.
    ISBN: 0821419153hbk.
    ISBN: 9780821419168pbk.
    ISBN: 0821419161pbk.
    Content Note: 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 andthe 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 declineof 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 / SalvatoreAdorno -- 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
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