Enclosing Water is an environmental history of the Industrial
Revolution, as inscribed on the Liri valley in Italy's Central
Apennines. Amid forces of revolution and empire, and Enlightenment
discourses of 'improvement' and political economy, the Liri's
natural wealth - water-power - generated sweeping changes in its
landscape and working and living environments. This book tells the
story of how defining water as property - both materially and
discursively - led to the emergence of an industrial riverscape,
and of a concomitant new ecological consciousness; to heightened
environmental risks and awareness of those risks. A dramatic
century in the Liri's socio-environmental history, with its cast of
new industrial bourgeoisie, engineers and civil servants,
illuminates how material developments and ideological currents
completely reshaped the relationship between society and nature at
the periphery of 19th century Europe. By integrating Political
Economy into the narrative of European environmental history, this
pioneering book offers a critical new view of discourses of water
disorder and environmental politics in the Mediterranean region.
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