Enclosing Water

Nature and Political Economy in a Mediterranean Valley 1796-1916

von Stefania Barca

196 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Enclosing Water is an environmental history of theIndustrial Revolution, as inscribed on the Liri valley inItaly's Central Apennines. Amid forces of revolution andempire, and Enlightenment discourses of 'improvement'and political economy, the Liri's natural wealth - waterpower- generated sweeping changes in its landscapeand working and living environments. This book tellsthe story of how defining water as property - bothmaterially and discursively - led to the emergence of anindustrial riverscape, and of a concomitant newecological consciousness; to heightened environmentalrisks and awareness of those risks. A dramatic century inthe Liri's socio-environmental history, with its cast ofnew industrial bourgeoisie, engineers and civil servants,illuminates how material developments and ideologicalcurrents completely reshaped the relationship betweensociety and nature at the periphery of 19th centuryEurope. By integrating Political Economy into thenarrative of European environmental history, thispioneering book offers a critical new view of discoursesof water disorder and environmental politics in theMediterranean region.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Europäische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9781874267577
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2010
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: White Horse Press