The Mountains of the Mediterranean WorldCambridge University Press, 2002 - 448 pagine This book describes and analyses the environmental history of the mountain areas of the Mediterranean world, focusing on Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Morocco. The author examines the land and its people and concludes that great changes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries created the often barren and depopulated countrysides of today. These changes, he suggests, lie behind much of the social and political turbulence of modern times as mountain people came to terms with worsening conditions. Written in a lively style, the book is the first environmental history of the Mediterranean area. |
Sommario
THE ARGUMENT ECOLOGY ECONOMY SHELLS AND SKELETONS | 1 |
Overshoot | 2 |
Market Integration | 8 |
MEDITERRANEAN MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENTS | 12 |
Five Mountain Ranges | 19 |
A Few Villages | 49 |
Conclusion | 66 |
THE DEEP HISTORY OF MEDITERRANEAN LANDSCAPES | 68 |
The Quality of the Data | 149 |
The Taurus | 152 |
The Pindus | 162 |
The Lucanian Apennines | 176 |
The Alpujarra | 189 |
The Rif | 202 |
Conclusion | 218 |
POLITICAL ECONOMY AND MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPES | 221 |
Prehistoric Landscapes | 69 |
Ancient Landscape Change | 72 |
After the Ancients AD 5001000 | 84 |
The Slow Renaissance of the Mountains 10001700 | 86 |
Five Mountain Landscapes 5001700 | 93 |
Conclusion | 102 |
MATERIAL LIFE IN THE MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT 17001900 | 104 |
The Land and the Seasons | 106 |
Vulnerabilities of Mountain Life | 114 |
Auxiliary Activities | 117 |
Basic Necessities | 126 |
Seasons of Life | 138 |
The Village and the Wider World | 142 |
Conclusion | 145 |
POPULATION SETTLEMENT AND LANDSCAPES | 147 |
The Loss of Auxiliary Activities | 223 |
Economic Change and Environmental Decay | 236 |
Politics and War | 260 |
Conclusion | 270 |
THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE SINCE 1800 | 272 |
Evidence of Landscape Change | 284 |
Deforestation | 286 |
Erosion | 311 |
Consequences of Landscape Change | 325 |
Interventions | 346 |
Conclusion | 349 |
CONCLUSION | 351 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 359 |
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ACSR agriculture Almería Alpujarra Anatolia ancient Antalya Arabs Basilicata brigandage busta Calabria cedar charcoal coast crops cultivation decline deforestation ecological economic Eğridir emigration Epirot Epirus España existed forest fuel fuelwood goats Granada grazing Greece Greek hectares Ioannina irrigation Jiménez Kallarites kilometers labor Lagonegro land landscape late Leo Africanus lowland Lucania Lucanian Apennines Lucanian mountains Madrid maize malaria maquis Marquesado Marruecos massif Mediterranean Mediterranean mountains Mediterranean world meters Metsovo migration Moroccan Morocco mountain villages Nekor nineteenth century nomads northern numbers Ottoman overshoot pasture peasants percent perhaps Pindus Pindus villages pine plains Planhol Pollino population growth Potenza production Rifians rivers Samarina season settlement sheep shepherds Sierra de Gádor Sierra Nevada sixteenth century slopes soil erosion southern Italy Spain Spanish summer Taurus terraces Tetouan timber tion trade transhumance trees Trevélez Turkey twentieth century upland vegetation Vlach western Taurus wheat winter women wood Zagori zones
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