Nature and history in modern Italy

263 Pages·2010·4.182 MB·English

by  Armiero, Marco;Hall, Marcus;Worster, Donald

Nature and History in Modern Italy
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Nature and History in Modern Italy
Nature and History in Modern Italy
Edited by Marco Armiero and Marcus Hall
With a foreword by Donald Worster
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Nature and history in modern Italy / edited by Marco Armiero and Marcus Hall ; with a foreword by Donald Worster.
p. cm. — (Ohio University Press series in ecology and history)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8214-1915-1 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8214-1916-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8214-4347-
7 (electronic)
1. Italy—Environmental conditions. 2. Italy—History—19th century. 3. Italy—History—20th century. 4. Landscapes—Social
aspects—Italy—History. 5. Nature—Effect of human beings on—Italy—History. 6. Human ecology—Italy—History. 7. Italy
—Social conditions. 8. Pollution—Italy—History. 9. Urbanization—Environmental aspects—Italy—History. 10.
Environmentalism—Italy—History. I. Armiero, Marco, 1966– II. Hall, Marcus, 1959–
GE160.I8N38 2010
304.20945—dc22
2010019101
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword

DONALD WORSTER
Acknowledgments
Il Bel Paese
An Introduction
MARCO ARMIERO AND MARCUS HALL
FOUNDATIONS
The Distinctive Character of Italian Environmental History
Chapter 1.
PIERO BEVILACQUA
Upside-Down Landscapes
Chapter 2.Seismicity and Seismic Disasters in Italy
EMANUELA GUIDOBONI
Moving Ground
Chapter 3.Vesuvius and the Nola Mudslides of the Nineteenth Century
WALTER PALMIERI
Environmental Imperialism in Sardinia
Chapter 4.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
Chapter 5.Italy
GABRIELLA CORONA
Chapter 6.Forest Visions in Early Modern Italy
BRUNO VECCHIO
Environmental Heritage of a Past Cultural Landscape
Chapter 7.Alder Woods in the Upper Aveto Valley of the Northwestern Apennines
ROBERTA CEVASCO
Act Locally, Think Nationally
Chapter 8.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
Chapter 9.
SIMONE NERI SERNERI
Chapter Petrochemical Modernity in Sicily
10. SALVATORE ADORNO
Chapter The Seveso Disaster Legacy
11. LAURA CENTEMERI
LANDSCAPE, CULTURE, AND ENVIRONMENTALISM
A “Natural” Capitalism
Chapter
Water and the Making of the Italian Industrial Landscape
12.
STEFANIA BARCA
Nationalizing the Mountains
Chapter
Natural and Political Landscapes in World War I
13.
MARCO ARMIERO
Nature Preservation and Protection in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Italy,
Chapter
1880–1950
14.
LUIGI PICCIONI
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Map 0.1. Geographic map of Italy (Ohio University Cartographic Center)
Illustrations
Maps
0.1. Geographic map of Italy
0.2. Geographic map of northern Italy
0.3. Geographic map of southern Italy
2.2. Earthquake epicenters in Calabria, 1600 to 2000
2.3. Effects of 1908 earthquake in Calabria and the Strait of Messina
3.1. Sarno region
5.1. Typologies of Italian commons by geographic areas
8.1. Locations of the case studies in Fascist Italy
10.1. Location of petrochemical industries, Augusta, Sicily
Figures
2.1. Andrea Mantegna (1431–1506), Polittico di San Zeno, Orazione nell’Orto
2.2. 1783 earthquakes in Calabria
2.3. 1905 earthquake in Calabria
2.4. Effects of 1908 earthquake in Messina, Sicily.
2.5. Gibellina Vecchia (Valle del Belice, southwestern Sicily)
4.1. DDT canisters carried by donkeys as part of the Sardinian Project, 1946–51
4.2. Fumigating a pond with DDT in Sardinia, 1949
6.1. Villa d’Este (Como)
6.2. Bagni Caldi (Lucca)
6.3. Agnano (Naples)
6.4. Girgenti, Sicily
7.1. The alnocoltura cycle in the 1820s in Val d’Aveto