TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lauri,Zoe
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - The Nature of the Risorgimento: Science, Environment and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Italy 
T2  - Cultural History of Science
SN  - 9788869775345
AV  - D203.2-475 
U1  - 940.903 23
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Sesto San Giovanni
PB  - MIM Edizioni srl, Imprint: Mimesis International
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - 1492-
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Culture
KW  - History of Modern Europe
KW  - Society
KW  - European Culture
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Following Italy’s unification in 1861, the new state faced the complex task of achieving political, administrative and cultural cohesion, which also required a unified body of knowledge about the national territory and its natural environment. This book explores how knowledge of Italian nature was produced, circulated, and institutionalised in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as part of the broader nationbuilding project, and how it contributed to the symbolic and material construction of the nation. Scientists played a crucial role in articulating a naturalistic unity of the peninsula, mapping its resources, and defining the idea of a distinct ‘Italian’ landscape. Through a critical analysis of scientific practices, actors, and institutions, the study reveals how Italian nature served as a symbol of national identity, an instrument of political legitimacy, and a means of shaping and consolidating a shared vision of Italy as Il Bel Paese – an image that remains deeply embedded in the country’s cultural imagination today. open access
UR  - https://doi.org/10.65272/978-88-6977-534-5
ER  -