Nature and History in Modern Italy

Nature and History in Modern Italy
Author: Marco Armiero
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2010-08-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0821419161


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Marco Armiero is Senior Researcher at the Italian National Research Council and Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technologies, Universitat Aut(noma de Barcelona. He has published extensively on-Italian environmental history and edited Views from the South: Environmental Stories from the Mediterranean World. --


Nature and History in Modern Italy
Language: en
Pages: 315
Authors: Marco Armiero
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-31 - Publisher: Ohio University Press

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Marco Armiero is Senior Researcher at the Italian National Research Council and Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technologies,
Possessing Nature
Language: en
Pages: 468
Authors: Paula Findlen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-09-16 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicate
Nature and History in Modern Italy
Language: en
Pages: 315
Authors: Marco Armiero
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-15 - Publisher: Ohio University Press

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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 bee
Fault Lines
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Giacomo Parrinello
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05-01 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

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Earth’s fractured geology is visible in its fault lines. It is along these lines that earthquakes occur, sometimes with disastrous effects. These disturbances
Watching Vesuvius
Language: en
Pages: 335
Authors: Sean Cocco
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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This work explores the question of Vesuvius as an object of study in the early modern science of volcanism from the investigations and opinions of humanists and