Nature and History in Modern Italy

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Marco (EDT)/ Hall Armiero
• Assisted by: Marco Armiero (Editor), Marcus Hall (Editor)
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.08.2010
• EAN: 9780821419168
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-1916-8
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Ecology & History; Ohio University Press Series i; Series in Ecology and History; Series in Ecology and History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration