{"product_id":"enclosing-water-nature-and-political-economy-in-a-mediterranean-valley-1796-1916-9781874267577","title":"Enclosing Water: Nature and Political Economy in a Mediterranean Valley, 1796-1916","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnclosing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The close and dense connections pinpointed between culture, environment, and economy make this work an enriching, even indispensable read - Essential.' R. Spickermann, University of Texas. CHOICE Academic Reviews   'The Industrial Revolution is one of the great themes for environmental history. Here Barca rises to the challenge, providing a clear case study of an industrial transformation of a riverine environment in its political, intellectual, social, and economic context.'   J.R. McNeill, Georgetown University. Environmental History '[Barca's] penetrating, multi-layered unpacking of this tragic story makes significant contributions to environmental, social and intellectual history. Enclosing Water is essential reading for understanding the dialectical consequences of changing socio-ecological relationships. It offers an original, thought-provoking way of seeing how society creates landscapes out of visionary ideal of itself.' Harold Platt, Environment and History.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTABLE OF CONTENTS  Part I: WATER AND REVOLUTIONS.  Italian landscape with waterfall A road to waterpower  1. The landscape of Political Economy  \t\tNature and nation in the Kingdom of Naples \t\tImproving the Valley \t\tLandscape and violence  2. Empire and the 'disorder of water' \t\tLiberating nature \t\tRivers and revolution\t \t\tSeeing like a statistician  3. The ecology of waterpower  \t\tThe making of an industrial riverscape \t'I'll have your flesh for three cents per pound': Gender and mechanisation \tImprovement vs. habitation \tThe machine in the river: a pastoral narrative \t PART II: THE ECONOMY OF WATER  One hundred years of enclosures Rivers and property in the Italian South  4.\tEnclosing the river  \t\tPicture a river open to all...  \t\tThe appropriators \t\tWater wars, water discipline \t\tThe tragedy of enclosure \t 5. Floods and politics in the Apennines  \t\tSeeing like an engineer \t\tThe un-improving State  \t\tIndustry and disaster  EPILOGUE  Common Water","brand":"White Horse Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771676918103,"sku":"9781874267577","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781874267577.jpg?v=1758728757","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/enclosing-water-nature-and-political-economy-in-a-mediterranean-valley-1796-1916-9781874267577","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}