Nature and History in Modern Italy (Hardcover, New)

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\u2019s greed and nature\u2019s cruelty? The answer is largely a matter of narrative and the narrator\u2019s vision of Italy. The fifteen essays in Nature and History in Modern Italy investigate that nation\u2019s 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\u2019s rich human history and its dramatic natural diversity is a subject with broad appeal to a wide range of readers.

General

Imprint:	Ohio University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Series in Ecology and History
Release date:	August 2010
First published:	2010
Editors:	Marco Armiero • Marcus Hall
Foreword by:	Donald Worster
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	312
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8214-1915-1
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Management of land & natural resources Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Conservation of the environment > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8214-1915-3
Barcode:	9780821419151

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