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History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape

Out of Print
By: Emilio Sereni(Author), R Burr Litchfield(Translated by)
408 pages, 74 b/w photos, 24 b/w illustrations, 11 tables
History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape
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  • History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape ISBN: 9780691012155 Paperback Dec 1997 Out of Print #152333
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About this book

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.

Contents

List of Plates and Figures

I Natural Landscape and Agricultural Landscape
II Ancient Italy
III The Early Middle Ages and the Feudal Era
IV The Age of the Communes
V The Age of the Renaissance
VI The Age of the Counter-Reformation and Foreign Domination
VII The Age of Enlightened Despotism and Reforms
VIII The Age of the Risorgimento
IX Italian Unification
X An Agricultural Panorama of Contemporary Italy

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Out of Print
By: Emilio Sereni(Author), R Burr Litchfield(Translated by)
408 pages, 74 b/w photos, 24 b/w illustrations, 11 tables
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"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

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