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Book SynopsisIs 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.
Trade Review“The first stop for anyone wishing to learn about Italian environmental history.” * Environmental History *
“There is currently no such thing as a coherent synthetic history of Italian environmental particularities such as landslides, deforestation, the early established but inadequate areas of preserved ‘wilderness,’ the wild zones of massive toxic pollution, and the distinctive landscape symbolism of a late-unifying nation-state. So, this book is to be welcomed as much for its pioneering quality as for the intellectual strengths and empirical interest of its various chapters.”
“For readers interested in a detailed portrait of how geography and population interact—with particular reference to the environment—and the impact of each on the other, this book offers a complex, yet convincing, portrait of modern Italy.” * CHOICE *
