Nature and History in Modern Italy(English, Paperback, unknown)

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Nature and History in Modern Italy(English, Paperback, unknown) is written by unknown and published by Ohio University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0821419161 (ISBN 10) and 9780821419168 (ISBN 13).

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 domesxadtixadcated 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 memory in nature, and rendering the two different visions inseparxadable. The interplay of Italy's rich human history and its dramatic natural diversity is a subject with broad appeal to a wide range of readers.