A Monastery for the Ibex: Conservation, State, and Conflict on the Gran Paradiso 1919-1949 - Couverture rigide

Hardenberg, Wilko Graf Von

 
9780822946359: A Monastery for the Ibex: Conservation, State, and Conflict on the Gran Paradiso 1919-1949
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ISBN 10 : 0822946351 ISBN 13 : 9780822946359
Editeur : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021

Synopsis

Finalist, 2023 Turku Book Award Gran Paradiso National Park is Italy’s oldest, and was instrumental in preventing the extinction of the Alpine ibex between World War I and just after World War II. Today, there are more than 30,000 ibex living in the Alps, all of which descended from that last colony protected in Gran Paradiso under Mussolini’s rule. Wilko Graf von Hardenberg merges the history of conservation with the area’s social history and Italy’s larger political history to produce a multifaceted narrative about the park as an institution, the conflicts it triggered, and practices adopted to manage the ibex despite hurdles placed by the fascist regime. The book’s central argument is that, in fascist Italy, preservation—propaganda notwithstanding—was a product of the regime’s continuities with the previous liberal system. Italy’s total fascist transformation, accomplished only more than a decade after Mussolini took power, virtually unmade the early successes of preservation set in place by the nascent “nature state” in the regime’s early years. Despite this conflict, conservationists succeeded in preserving the ibex. Hardenberg positions this success within the broader history of science, conservation, and tourism in fascist Italy and the Alpine region, creating a comprehensive historical background and comparative reference to ongoing debates about the role of nature conservation in general and in relation to the state and its agencies.

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À propos de l'auteur

Wilko Graf von Hardenberg is a senior research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and co-editor of The Nature State: Rethinking the History of Conservation.

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Éditeur
University of Pittsburgh Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0822946351
ISBN 13 
9780822946359
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
270
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