Nature and history in modern Italy / 
edited by Marco Armiero and Marcus Hall ; with a foreword by Donald Worster. 
 - 1 online resource (314 pages) :  illustrations, maps. 
 - Ohio University Press series in ecology and history .
 - Ohio University Press series in ecology and history. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780821443477 (e-book) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Landscapes--Social aspects--History.--Italy<br/>Nature--Effect of human beings on--History.--Italy<br/>Human ecology--History--Human ecology--History.--Italy<br/>Pollution--History.--Italy<br/>Urbanization--Environmental aspects--History.--Italy<br/>Environmentalism--History.--Italy
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Italy--Environmental conditions.<br/>Italy--History--19th century.<br/>Italy--History--20th century.<br/>Italy--Social conditions.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GE160.I8  / N38 2010eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>304.20945