| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 208 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover -- Cleaning Up Renaissance Italy: Environmental Ideals and Urban Practice in Genoa and Venice -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Epigraph -- Introduction -- Balance, Flow, and Cleanliness in the Premodern European City -- The State of Genoa and Venice -- Chapter Structure -- 1: Constructing Ideals and Practices in Renaissance Port Cities -- Imagining Renaissance Ports -- Port Societies -- Port Spaces and Society in Genoa and Venice -- PART ONE: THE EBBS AND FLOWS OF DAILY LIFE |
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2: Channelling Health: The Flow of the Streets -- The Quality of the Streets -- The Surface of the Streets -- Selling on the Streets -- The Seasons of the Streets -- 3: Preserving Purity: The Symbolic and Practical Regulation of Water -- Overflows: The Infrastructure of Water Supply -- Worries about Washing -- Down the Drain -- 4: Stemming the Tide: Innovation and Purgation -- Salvage and Shipwrecks -- Petitions and Patents -- Dredging -- Repair and Reclamation -- Regulating Rivers -- PART TWO: BODIES: CONCEPTS OF BALANCE AND BLAME -- 5: Working with Waste: Space, Reuse, and the Urban Body |
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Identifying Waste -- Placing Waste -- Handling Waste -- 6: Dealing with Disasters: Environments, People, and Piety -- Stories of Natural Disasters -- Plagues -- Storms and Floods -- Conclusion: Corruptible Cities -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index |
| Summary |
'Cleaning Up Renaissance Italy' takes us to the streets, bridges, and waterways of Renaissance Genoa and Venice, exploring how environmental management - street cleaning, water provision, waste disposal, and reuse - relates to cultural ideals, individual and collective behaviour, political reputations, and social identities |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Environmental management -- Italy -- Genoa -- History
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Environmental management -- Italy -- Venice -- History
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Urbanization -- Italy -- Genoa -- History
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Urbanization -- Italy -- Venice -- History
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Environmental management.
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environmental control.
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Environmental management
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Urbanization
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The environment.
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Environment and Ecology.
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| SUBJECT |
Genoa (Italy) -- History -- 1339-1528. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85053918
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Genoa (Italy) -- History -- 1528-1789. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85053919
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Venice (Italy) -- History -- 697-1508. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85142722
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Venice (Italy) -- History -- 1508-1797. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85142724
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Italy -- Genoa
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Italy -- Venice
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191904165 |
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0191904163 |
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9780192637390 |
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0192637398 |
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019263738X |
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9780192637383 |
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