LEADER 04624nam 2200745 450 001 9910817015203321 005 20230207215057.0 010 $a0-8214-4347-X 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046839 035 $a(EBL)1743662 035 $a(OCoLC)758400065 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000667875 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11393368 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000667875 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10697842 035 $a(PQKB)11677769 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1743662 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2872 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1743662 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10904203 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046839 100 $a20100511h20102010 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aNature and history in modern Italy /$fedited by Marco Armiero and Marcus Hall ; with a foreword by Donald Worster 210 1$aAthens :$cOhio University Press,$d[2010] 210 4$dİ2010 215 $a1 online resource (315 p.) 225 1 $aOhio University Press series in ecology and history 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8214-1915-3 311 $a0-8214-1916-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIl 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. 330 $aIs Italy il bel paese-the beautiful country-where tourists spend their vacations looking for art, history, and scenery? Or is it a land whose beauty has been cursed by humanity's greed and nature's cruelty? The answer is largely a matter of narrative and the narrator's vision of Italy. The fifteen essays in Nature and History in Modern Italy investigate that nation's long experience in managing domesticated rather than wild natures and offer insight into these conflicting visions. Italians shaped their land in the most literal sense, producing the landscape, sculpting its heritage, embedding 410 0$aOhio University Press series in ecology and history. 606 $aLandscapes$xSocial aspects$zItaly$xHistory 606 $aNature$xEffect of human beings on$zItaly$xHistory 606 $aHuman ecology$xHistory$zItaly$xHuman ecology$xHistory 606 $aPollution$zItaly$xHistory 606 $aUrbanization$xEnvironmental aspects$zItaly$xHistory 606 $aEnvironmentalism$zItaly$xHistory 607 $aItaly$xEnvironmental conditions 607 $aItaly$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aItaly$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aItaly$xSocial conditions 615 0$aLandscapes$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aNature$xEffect of human beings on$xHistory. 615 0$aHuman ecology$xHistory$xHuman ecology$xHistory. 615 0$aPollution$xHistory. 615 0$aUrbanization$xEnvironmental aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aEnvironmentalism$xHistory. 676 $a304.20945 702 $aArmiero$b Marco$f1966- 702 $aHall$b Marcus$f1959- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817015203321 996 $aNature and history in modern Italy$92247322 997 $aUNINA