| Book Review | Environmental History, 9.4

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Book Review

Storia dell'Ambiente: Una Introduzione. [History of the Environment: An Introduction]. Marco Armiero and Stefania Barca. Roma: Carocci editore, 2004. 211pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Paperback, 16.80 euro.

It is with great anticipation and some trepidation that I sit down with a non-English book about environmental history. I have found that more often than not, such works are either rough approximations of what has by and large already appeared in my mother tongue, or else are so far from what most practicing ASEH members consider their pursuit as to hardly qualify as environmental history. But there is always the exciting possibility of discovering new nuggets, uncovered and gleaned in someone else's intellectual tradition, which just might offer new sparkles for illuminating my own past environments—and so reward me for the efforts I spend looking up words or sending them through translator programs. Happily for readers of Italian, Armiero and Barca have produced what may be considered a new synthesis, providing environmental historians with an up-to-date synopsis of the field and a baseline from which to craft their own research. One may quibble with how they have organized their survey, or why they praise one classic more than another, but there is little question that this book is a model of how other historiographic surveys in yet other languages—including English—might be done if environmental history is to reach its full audience and potential.

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