Stefania Barca

Enclosing Water (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

"e;Enclosing Water"e; is an environmental history of the Industrial Revolution, as inscribed on the Liri valley in Italy's Central Apennines. Amid forces of revolution and empire, and Enlightenment discourses of 'improvement' and political economy, the Liri's natural wealth - water-power - generated sweeping changes in its landscape and working and living environments. ENCLOSING WATER was the winner of the 2011 TURKU BOOK AWARD for environmental history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The White Horse Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2010
• ISBN-13: 9781912186341
• Artikelnr.: 72329756

Autorenporträt

Stefania Barca is an environmental historian and senior researcher, Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. She is the author of the award-winning book Enclosing Water. Nature and Political Economy in a Mediterranean Valley, 1796-1916 (Cambridge: White Horse Press, 2010). Her current research interests lay at the intersection between labor environmentalism and eco-feminist political economy.