History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape (Princeton Legacy Library) - Brossura

Sereni, Emilio

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ISBN 10: 0691601674 ISBN 13: 9780691601670

Casa editrice: Princeton University Press, 2014

Riassunto

Emilio Sereni's classic work is now available in an English language edition. History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape is a synthesis of the agricultural history of Italy in its economic, social, and ecological context, from antiquity to the mid-twentieth century. From his perspective in the Italian tradition of cultural Marxism, Sereni guides the reader through the millennial changes that have affected the agriculture and ecology of the regions of Italy, as well as through the successes and failures of farmers and technicians in antiquity, the middle ages, the Renaissance, and the Industrial Revolution. In this sweeping historical survey, he describes attempts by successive generations to adapt Italy's natural environment for the purposes of agriculture and to respond to its changing ecological problems.

History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape first appeared in 1961. At the time of its publication it was a pathbreaking work, parallel in its importance for Italy to Marc Bloc's masterwork of 1931, The Original Characteristics of French Rural History. Sereni invented the concept of the historical "agricultural landscape": an interdisciplinary characterization of rural life involving economic and social history, linguistics, archeology, art history, and ecological studies.

Originally published in 1997.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Recensione:

"Emilio Sereni is without any doubt one of the towering figures in Italian culture of this century, as the variety of his interests, sterling erudition and lucid intelligence readily attest . . . This book, even at a distance of almost fifty years from its original publication, retains an extraordinary freshness . . . this book still constitutes a font of fertile reflections." --Journal of Modern Italian Studies

Contenuti:

	List of Plates and Figures
	Foreword to the Series
	Introduction to the English Translation
	Preface	3
I	Natural Landscape and Agricultural Landscape	15
II	Ancient Italy	19
III	The Early Middle Ages and the Feudal Era	51
IV	The Age of the Communes	87
V	The Age of the Renaissance	117
VI	The Age of the Counter-Reformation and Foreign Domination	185
VII	The Age of Enlightened Despotism and Reforms	225
VIII	The Age of the Risorgimento	259
IX	Italian Unification	289
X	An Agricultural Panorama of Contemporary Italy	347
	Glossary	381
	Index	385

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• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0691601674
• ISBN 13: 9780691601670
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 434