History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape

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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

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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