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

Publication Info. Athens : Ohio University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 295 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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Series Ohio University Press series in ecology and history
Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Italy -- Environmental conditions.
Italy.
Environmental conditions.
Italy -- History -- 19th century.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Italy -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Landscapes -- Social aspects -- Italy -- History.
Landscapes -- Social aspects.
Landscapes.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Italy -- History.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Human ecology -- Italy -- History.
Human ecology.
Italy -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Pollution -- Italy -- History.
Pollution.
Urbanization -- Environmental aspects -- Italy -- History.
Urbanization -- Environmental aspects.
Urbanization.
Environmentalism -- Italy -- History.
Environmentalism.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Armiero, Marco, 1966-
Hall, Marcus, 1959-
Other Form: Print version: Nature and history in modern Italy. Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2010 9780821443477 082144347X (DLC) 2010019101 (OCoLC)471810927
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