Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Il Bel Paese: An Introduction -- Foundations -- Chapter 1. The Distinctive Character of Italian Environmental History -- Chapter 2. Upside-Down Landscapes: Seismicity and Seismic Disasters in Italy -- Chapter 3. Moving Ground: Vesuvius and the Nola Mudslides of the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 4. Environmental Imperialism in Sardinia: Pesticides and Politics in the Struggle against Malaria -- Commons and Forests -- Chapter 5. The Decline of the Commons and the Environmental Balance in Early Modern Italy -- Chapter 6. Forest Visions in Early Modern Italy -- Chapter 7. Environmental Heritage of a Past Cultural Landscape: Alder Woods in the Upper Aveto Valley of the Northwestern Apennines -- Chapter 8. Act Locally, Think Nationally: A Brief History of Access Rights and Environmental Conflicts in Fascist Italy -- Pollution, Industry, and Urban Environment -- Chapter 9. Dealing with Industrial Pollution in Italy, 1880-1940 -- Chapter 10. Petrochemical Modernity in Sicily -- Chapter 11. The Seveso Disaster Legacy -- Landscape, Culture, and Environmentalism -- Chapter 12. A "Natural" Capitalism: Water and the Making of the Italian Industrial Landscape -- Chapter 13. Nationalizing the Mountains: Natural and Political Landscapes in World War I -- Chapter 14. Nature Preservation and Protection in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Italy, 1880-1950 -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.