Cultivating the colonies [[electronic resource] ] : colonial states and their environmental legacies / / edited by Christina Folke Ax ... [et al.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (353 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.7 |
Altri autori (Persone) | AxChristina Folke |
Collana | Ohio University Research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series |
Soggetto topico |
Imperialism - Environmental aspects
Imperialism - Health aspects Human ecology - History Nature - Effect of human beings on - History Environmental policy - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-89680-479-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The prospective colonist and strange environments : advice on health and prosperity / Andrew Wear -- Carved out of nature : identity and environment in German colonial Africa / Daniel Rouven Steinbach -- The science of nature and the nature of science in the Spanish and American Philippines at the turn of the twentieth century / Greg Bankoff -- Aerial photography and colonial discourse on the agricultural crisis in late-colonial Indochina, 1930-1945 / David Biggs -- Wetland colonies : Louisiana, Guangzhou, Pondicherry, and Senegal / Christopher Morris -- Colonization of the Russian North : a frozen frontier / Julia Lajus -- Recasting disease and its environment : indigenous medical practitioners, the plague, and politics in colonial India, 1898-1910 / Kavita Sivaramakrishnan -- Changing times, changing palates : the dietary impacts of Basuto adaptation to new rulers, crops, and markets, 1830s-1966 / Phia Steyn -- State rationality, development, and the making of state territory : from colonial extraction to postcolonial conservation in southern Mozambique / Elizabeth Lunstrum -- Ecological communication at the Oxford Imperial Forestry Institute / Peder Anker -- Colonial experts, developmental and environmental doctrines, and the legacies of late British colonialism / Joseph M. Hodge. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457249403321 |
Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cultivating the colonies [[electronic resource] ] : colonial states and their environmental legacies / / edited by Christina Folke Ax ... [et al.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (353 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.7 |
Altri autori (Persone) | AxChristina Folke |
Collana | Ohio University Research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series |
Soggetto topico |
Imperialism - Environmental aspects
Imperialism - Health aspects Human ecology - History Nature - Effect of human beings on - History Environmental policy - History |
ISBN | 0-89680-479-8 |
Classificazione | HIS037000NAT024000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The prospective colonist and strange environments : advice on health and prosperity / Andrew Wear -- Carved out of nature : identity and environment in German colonial Africa / Daniel Rouven Steinbach -- The science of nature and the nature of science in the Spanish and American Philippines at the turn of the twentieth century / Greg Bankoff -- Aerial photography and colonial discourse on the agricultural crisis in late-colonial Indochina, 1930-1945 / David Biggs -- Wetland colonies : Louisiana, Guangzhou, Pondicherry, and Senegal / Christopher Morris -- Colonization of the Russian North : a frozen frontier / Julia Lajus -- Recasting disease and its environment : indigenous medical practitioners, the plague, and politics in colonial India, 1898-1910 / Kavita Sivaramakrishnan -- Changing times, changing palates : the dietary impacts of Basuto adaptation to new rulers, crops, and markets, 1830s-1966 / Phia Steyn -- State rationality, development, and the making of state territory : from colonial extraction to postcolonial conservation in southern Mozambique / Elizabeth Lunstrum -- Ecological communication at the Oxford Imperial Forestry Institute / Peder Anker -- Colonial experts, developmental and environmental doctrines, and the legacies of late British colonialism / Joseph M. Hodge. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781684903321 |
Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cultivating the colonies : colonial states and their environmental legacies / / edited by Christina Folke Ax ... [et al.] |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (353 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.7 |
Altri autori (Persone) | AxChristina Folke |
Collana | Ohio University Research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series |
Soggetto topico |
Imperialism - Environmental aspects
Imperialism - Health aspects Human ecology - History Nature - Effect of human beings on - History Environmental policy - History |
ISBN | 0-89680-479-8 |
Classificazione | HIS037000NAT024000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The prospective colonist and strange environments : advice on health and prosperity / Andrew Wear -- Carved out of nature : identity and environment in German colonial Africa / Daniel Rouven Steinbach -- The science of nature and the nature of science in the Spanish and American Philippines at the turn of the twentieth century / Greg Bankoff -- Aerial photography and colonial discourse on the agricultural crisis in late-colonial Indochina, 1930-1945 / David Biggs -- Wetland colonies : Louisiana, Guangzhou, Pondicherry, and Senegal / Christopher Morris -- Colonization of the Russian North : a frozen frontier / Julia Lajus -- Recasting disease and its environment : indigenous medical practitioners, the plague, and politics in colonial India, 1898-1910 / Kavita Sivaramakrishnan -- Changing times, changing palates : the dietary impacts of Basuto adaptation to new rulers, crops, and markets, 1830s-1966 / Phia Steyn -- State rationality, development, and the making of state territory : from colonial extraction to postcolonial conservation in southern Mozambique / Elizabeth Lunstrum -- Ecological communication at the Oxford Imperial Forestry Institute / Peder Anker -- Colonial experts, developmental and environmental doctrines, and the legacies of late British colonialism / Joseph M. Hodge. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808717003321 |
Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Empire and Catastrophe : Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 1954 / / Spencer D. Segalla |
Autore | Segalla Spencer D. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1 EPUB unpaged) : : maps |
Disciplina | 325.344 |
Collana | France overseas: studies in empire and decolonization |
Soggetto topico |
Environmental disasters - Poltiical aspects - France
Environmental disasters - Poltiical aspects - Morocco Environmental disasters - Poltiical aspects - Algeria Imperialism - Environmental aspects Decolonization - Morocco Decolonization - Algeria |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-4962-2215-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910393959503321 |
Segalla Spencer D. | ||
Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2020 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Five emus to the king of Siam [[electronic resource] ] : environment and empire / / edited by Hellen Tiffin |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.482401724 |
Altri autori (Persone) | TiffinHelen |
Collana | Cross/cultures |
Soggetto topico |
Colonies - Environmental conditions
Imperialism in literature Imperialism - Environmental aspects Postcolonialism in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-26580-6
9786612265808 94-012-0474-8 1-4356-1242-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Empire’s Proxy: Sheep and the Colonial Environment / Leigh Dale -- Representations of Landscape and Nature in Anthony Trollope’s The West Indies and the Spanish Main and James Anthony Froude’s The English in the West Indies / Claudia Brandenstein -- Polluted River or Goddess and Saviour?: The Ganga in the Discourses of Modernity and Hinduism / Meenakshi Sharma -- Ecotourism: A Colonial Legacy? / Helen Gilbert -- Colonial Nature-Inscription: On Haunted Landscapes / Andrew Mccann -- “Transported Landscapes”: Reflections on Empire and Environment in the Pacific / Ruth Blair -- The “I” in Beaver: Sympathetic Identification and Self-Representation in Grey Owl’s Pilgrims of the Wild / Carrie Dawson -- The Sandline Mercenaries Affair: Postcoloniality, Globalization and the Nation-State / Robert Dixon -- Planting the Seeds of Christianity: Ecological Reform in Nineteenth-Century Polynesian London Missionary Society Stations / Anna Johnston -- Five Emus to the King of Siam: Acclimatization and Colonialism / Chris Tiffin -- “Back to the World”: Reading Ecocriticism in a Postcolonial Context / Susie O’Brien -- Views from Van Diemen’s Land: Space, Place and the Colonial Settler Subject in John Glover’s Landscapes / Catherine Howell -- Colonial Cordon Sanitaire: Fixing the Boundaries of the Disease Environment / Jo Robertson -- “The Animals Are Innocent”: Latter-Day Women Travellers in Africa / Gillian Whitlock -- Contributors -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452067103321 |
Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Five emus to the king of Siam [[electronic resource] ] : environment and empire / / edited by Hellen Tiffin |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.482401724 |
Altri autori (Persone) | TiffinHelen |
Collana | Cross/cultures |
Soggetto topico |
Colonies - Environmental conditions
Imperialism in literature Imperialism - Environmental aspects Postcolonialism in literature |
ISBN |
1-282-26580-6
9786612265808 94-012-0474-8 1-4356-1242-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Empire’s Proxy: Sheep and the Colonial Environment / Leigh Dale -- Representations of Landscape and Nature in Anthony Trollope’s The West Indies and the Spanish Main and James Anthony Froude’s The English in the West Indies / Claudia Brandenstein -- Polluted River or Goddess and Saviour?: The Ganga in the Discourses of Modernity and Hinduism / Meenakshi Sharma -- Ecotourism: A Colonial Legacy? / Helen Gilbert -- Colonial Nature-Inscription: On Haunted Landscapes / Andrew Mccann -- “Transported Landscapes”: Reflections on Empire and Environment in the Pacific / Ruth Blair -- The “I” in Beaver: Sympathetic Identification and Self-Representation in Grey Owl’s Pilgrims of the Wild / Carrie Dawson -- The Sandline Mercenaries Affair: Postcoloniality, Globalization and the Nation-State / Robert Dixon -- Planting the Seeds of Christianity: Ecological Reform in Nineteenth-Century Polynesian London Missionary Society Stations / Anna Johnston -- Five Emus to the King of Siam: Acclimatization and Colonialism / Chris Tiffin -- “Back to the World”: Reading Ecocriticism in a Postcolonial Context / Susie O’Brien -- Views from Van Diemen’s Land: Space, Place and the Colonial Settler Subject in John Glover’s Landscapes / Catherine Howell -- Colonial Cordon Sanitaire: Fixing the Boundaries of the Disease Environment / Jo Robertson -- “The Animals Are Innocent”: Latter-Day Women Travellers in Africa / Gillian Whitlock -- Contributors -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778356203321 |
Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Five emus to the king of Siam : environment and empire / / edited by Hellen Tiffin |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.482401724 |
Altri autori (Persone) | TiffinHelen |
Collana | Cross/cultures |
Soggetto topico |
Colonies - Environmental conditions
Imperialism in literature Imperialism - Environmental aspects Postcolonialism in literature |
ISBN |
1-282-26580-6
9786612265808 94-012-0474-8 1-4356-1242-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Empire’s Proxy: Sheep and the Colonial Environment / Leigh Dale -- Representations of Landscape and Nature in Anthony Trollope’s The West Indies and the Spanish Main and James Anthony Froude’s The English in the West Indies / Claudia Brandenstein -- Polluted River or Goddess and Saviour?: The Ganga in the Discourses of Modernity and Hinduism / Meenakshi Sharma -- Ecotourism: A Colonial Legacy? / Helen Gilbert -- Colonial Nature-Inscription: On Haunted Landscapes / Andrew Mccann -- “Transported Landscapes”: Reflections on Empire and Environment in the Pacific / Ruth Blair -- The “I” in Beaver: Sympathetic Identification and Self-Representation in Grey Owl’s Pilgrims of the Wild / Carrie Dawson -- The Sandline Mercenaries Affair: Postcoloniality, Globalization and the Nation-State / Robert Dixon -- Planting the Seeds of Christianity: Ecological Reform in Nineteenth-Century Polynesian London Missionary Society Stations / Anna Johnston -- Five Emus to the King of Siam: Acclimatization and Colonialism / Chris Tiffin -- “Back to the World”: Reading Ecocriticism in a Postcolonial Context / Susie O’Brien -- Views from Van Diemen’s Land: Space, Place and the Colonial Settler Subject in John Glover’s Landscapes / Catherine Howell -- Colonial Cordon Sanitaire: Fixing the Boundaries of the Disease Environment / Jo Robertson -- “The Animals Are Innocent”: Latter-Day Women Travellers in Africa / Gillian Whitlock -- Contributors -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823701703321 |
Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Global plantations in the modern world : sovereignties, ecologies, afterlives / / edited by Colette Le Petitcorps, Marta Macedo, and Irene Peano |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxv, 370 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
Disciplina | 261.8362 |
Collana | Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies |
Soggetto topico |
Human ecology - History
Imperialism - Environmental aspects Plantations - Economic aspects Plantations - Social aspects |
ISBN | 3-031-08537-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Foreword: Cristiana Bastos -- 1. Introduction: Viewing plantations at the intersection of political ecologies and multiple space-times Irene Peano, Marta Macedo and Colette Le Petitcorps -- Part I. Revisiting the Caribbean: Genealogies for the Plantationocene -- 2. From Marrons to Kreyòl: Human-Animal Relations in early Caribbean Rodrigo C. Bulamah -- 3. The rise and fall of caporalisme agraire in Haiti (1789-1806): Labour perspectives through the plantation complex Martino Sacchi and Lorenzo Ravano -- 4. Cacos and Cotton: Unmaking Imperial Geographies on Haiti’s Central Plateau Sophie Sapp Moore -- 5. Revolutionary sovereignty as lost normality: Nostalgia for oranges in a former Plantation in Cuba Marie Aureille -- Part II. Continental and Pacific Americas: Multiple subjectivities between control and resistance -- 6. ‘[A] continual exercise of…Patience and Economy’: Plantation overseers, agricultural innovation and state formation in eighteenth-century North America Tristan Stubbs -- 7. Inside the Big House: Slavery, Rationalization of Domestic Labor and the Construction of a New Habitus on Brazilian Coffee Plantations during the Second Slavery Mariana Muaze -- 8. Plantation Colonialism in Late Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i: The Case of Chinese Sugar Planters Nicholas B. Miller -- Part III. West Africa and its diasporas: Excavating forgotten pasts and haunted presents -- 9. The materialities of Danish plantation agriculture at Dodowa, Ghana: An archaeological perspective David Abrampah -- 10. “Sweet Mother”: The Neoliberal Plantation in Sierra Leone Nile Davies -- 11. “New Slavery”, modern marronage and the multiple afterlives of plantations in contemporary Italy Irene Peano -- Part IV. South and South-East Asia: Indigenous labour, more-than-human entanglements and the afterlives of multiple crises -- 12. The multispecies World of Oil Palm: Indigenous Marind Perspectives on Plantation Ecologies in West Papua Sophie Chao -- 13. Colonial plantations and their afterlives: Legal disciplines, Indian historiographies and their lessons. An interview with Rana Behal Marta Macedo, Irene Peano, Colette Le Petitcorps -- Afterword -- 14. Afterlives: The Recursive Plantation Deborah A. Thomas. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910647768903321 |
Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Postcolonial green [[electronic resource] ] : environmental politics & world narratives / / edited by Bonnie Roos & Alex Hunt |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/36 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
RoosBonnie <1970->
HuntAlex |
Collana | Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism |
Soggetto topico |
Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism
Human ecology in literature Ecology in literature Colonies in literature Postcolonialism in literature Environmental justice in literature Environmentalism in literature Imperialism - Environmental aspects Globalization - Environmental aspects Ecocriticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-48993-6
9786613585165 0-8139-3065-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: narratives of survival, sustainability, and justice / Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt -- Asia and the South Pacific. Arundhati Roy: environment and uneven form / Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee; Jungle tide, devouring reef: (post)colonial anxiety and ecocritique in Sri Lankan literature / Sharae Deckard; Fragments of Shangri-La: "eco-Tibet" and its global circuits / Gang Yue; Diggers, strangers, and broken men: environmental prophecy and the commodifcation of nature in Keri Hulme's The bone people / Laura Wright -- Africa. "Ravaging the earth, wasting our patrimony": excess hunting, landscape depletion, and environmental apocalypticism in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians / Sheng-yen Yu; "Relations with food": agriculture, colonialism, and foodways in the writing of Bessie Head / Jonathan Highfield -- Rhetorics of endangerment: cultural difference and development in international ape conservation discourse / Neel Ahuja -- North America. Narrative currency in a changing climate: grounding the arctic amid shifting terrain / Pavel Cenkl; Wild madness: the Makah whale hunt and its aftermath / Caskey Russell; bad seed: imperiled biological and social diversity in Ruth Ozeki's All over creation / Rachel Stein -- South America and the Caribbean. Performing tropics: Alexander von Humboldt's Ansichten der natur and the colonial roots of nature writing / Sabine Wilke -- The poetic politics of ecological inhabitation in Neruda's Canto general and Cardenal's cosmic canticle / Patrick D. Murphy -- Rewriting Eden in Walcott's Omeros: a sea change of stories in visible silence / Bonnie Roos -- Afterword: postcolonial ecocriticism and the question of literature / Ursula K. Heise -- Bibliography. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456888403321 |
Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Postcolonial green [[electronic resource] ] : environmental politics & world narratives / / edited by Bonnie Roos & Alex Hunt |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/36 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
RoosBonnie <1970->
HuntAlex |
Collana | Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism |
Soggetto topico |
Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism
Human ecology in literature Ecology in literature Colonies in literature Postcolonialism in literature Environmental justice in literature Environmentalism in literature Imperialism - Environmental aspects Globalization - Environmental aspects Ecocriticism |
ISBN |
1-280-48993-6
9786613585165 0-8139-3065-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: narratives of survival, sustainability, and justice / Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt -- Asia and the South Pacific. Arundhati Roy: environment and uneven form / Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee; Jungle tide, devouring reef: (post)colonial anxiety and ecocritique in Sri Lankan literature / Sharae Deckard; Fragments of Shangri-La: "eco-Tibet" and its global circuits / Gang Yue; Diggers, strangers, and broken men: environmental prophecy and the commodifcation of nature in Keri Hulme's The bone people / Laura Wright -- Africa. "Ravaging the earth, wasting our patrimony": excess hunting, landscape depletion, and environmental apocalypticism in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians / Sheng-yen Yu; "Relations with food": agriculture, colonialism, and foodways in the writing of Bessie Head / Jonathan Highfield -- Rhetorics of endangerment: cultural difference and development in international ape conservation discourse / Neel Ahuja -- North America. Narrative currency in a changing climate: grounding the arctic amid shifting terrain / Pavel Cenkl; Wild madness: the Makah whale hunt and its aftermath / Caskey Russell; bad seed: imperiled biological and social diversity in Ruth Ozeki's All over creation / Rachel Stein -- South America and the Caribbean. Performing tropics: Alexander von Humboldt's Ansichten der natur and the colonial roots of nature writing / Sabine Wilke -- The poetic politics of ecological inhabitation in Neruda's Canto general and Cardenal's cosmic canticle / Patrick D. Murphy -- Rewriting Eden in Walcott's Omeros: a sea change of stories in visible silence / Bonnie Roos -- Afterword: postcolonial ecocriticism and the question of literature / Ursula K. Heise -- Bibliography. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781647103321 |
Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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