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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Ohio University Press
ISBN-13
9780821419168
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95802002
Product Key Features
Author
Marco Armiero, Marcus Hall
Publication Name
Nature and History in Modern Italy
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Series in Ecology and History
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Editor
Marcus Hall, Marco Armiero
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