In this Book
- Nature and History in Modern Italy
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Ohio University Press
summary
Is 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 memory in nature, and rendering the two different visions inseparable. The interplay of Italy’s rich human history and its dramatic natural diversity is a subject with broad appeal to a wide range of readers.
Table of Contents
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- Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xv-xvi
- Il Bel Paese: An Introduction
- pp. 1-11
- Foundations
- p. 13
- Commons and Forests
- p. 87
- Chapter 11: The Seveso Disaster Legacy
- pp. 195-211
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 269-277
- Contributors
- pp. 279-282
Additional Information
ISBN
9780821443477
Related ISBN(s)
9780821419151
MARC Record
OCLC
758400065
Pages
295
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No