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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Armiero, Marco, 1966- (Editor ), Hall, Marcus, 1959- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2010.
©2010
Colección:Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.
Temas:
1800-1999
Landscapes > Social aspects > Italy > History.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Italy > History.
Human ecology > Italy > History.
Pollution > Italy > History.
Urbanization > Environmental aspects > Italy > History.
Environmentalism > Italy > History.
Paysages > Aspect social > Italie > Histoire.
Êtres humains > Influence sur la nature > Italie > Histoire.
Pollution > Italie > Histoire.
Urbanisation > Aspect de l'environnement > Italie > Histoire.
Environnementalisme > Italie > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
HISTORY > General.
Ecology
Environmentalism
Human ecology
Landscapes > Social aspects
Nature > Effect of human beings on
Pollution
Social conditions
Urbanization > Environmental aspects
Italy > Environmental conditions.
Italy > History > 19th century.
Italy > History > 20th century.
Italy > Social conditions.
Italie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Italie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Italie > Conditions sociales.
Italy
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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. 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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvi, 295 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780821443477
082144347X

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