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 domes-ti-cated 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...
Is Italy il bel paese-the beautiful country-where tourists spend their vacations looking for art, history, and scenery? Or is it a land whos...
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,...
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 h...
Landscape, politics and history: the Italian mountains as a crucible of national and natural identity. This book is part of a wider current in environmental history, that explores the links between nature and nation. It uncovers how Italian identity and mountains have constituted one another. It argues that state regimes since unification in 1861 have made mountains into national symbols and resources, thereby affecting mountain communities and ecosystems. The nationalisation of Italian mountains has been a story of military conquest and resistance, ecological and social transformation,...
Landscape, politics and history: the Italian mountains as a crucible of national and natural identity. This book is part of a wider current in environ...
Landscape, politics and history: the Italian mountains as a crucible of national and natural identity. This book is part of a wider current in environmental history, that explores the links between nature and nation. It uncovers how Italian identity and mountains have constituted one another. It argues that state regimes since unification in 1861 have made mountains into national symbols and resources, thereby affecting mountain communities and ecosystems. The nationalisation of Italian mountains has been a story of military conquest and resistance, ecological and social transformation,...
Landscape, politics and history: the Italian mountains as a crucible of national and natural identity. This book is part of a wider current in environ...
'Think globally, act locally' has become a call to environmentalist mobilization, proposing a closer connection between global concerns, local issues and individual responsibility. A History of Environmentalism explores this dialectic relationship, with ten contributors from a range of disciplines providing a history of environmentalism which frames global themes and narrates local stories.
Each of the chapters in this volume addresses specific struggles in the history of environmental movements, for example over national parks, species protection, forests, waste,...
'Think globally, act locally' has become a call to environmentalist mobilization, proposing a closer connection between global concerns, local issu...
'Think globally, act locally' has become a call to environmentalist mobilization, proposing a closer connection between global concerns, local issues and individual responsibility. A History of Environmentalism explores this dialectic relationship, with ten contributors from a range of disciplines providing a history of environmentalism which frames global themes and narrates local stories.
Each of the chapters in this volume addresses specific struggles in the history of environmental movements, for example over national parks, species protection, forests, waste,...
'Think globally, act locally' has become a call to environmentalist mobilization, proposing a closer connection between global concerns, local issu...
In the age of climate change, the possibility that dramatic environmental transformations might cause the dislocation of millions of people has become not only a matter for scientific speculations or science-fiction narratives, but the object of strategic plans and military analysis.
Environmental History of Modern Migrations offers a worldwide perspective on the history of migrations throughout the 19th and 20th century and provides an opportunity to reflect on the global ecological transformations and developments which have occurred throughout the...
In the age of climate change, the possibility that dramatic environmental transformations might cause the dislocation of millions of people has bec...
