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L'arca di Mosè
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Navigando fiumi paraguaiani
Il naturalista ticinese Mosè Bertoni (1857-1929), partito per l'Argentina nel 1884 con la già numerosa famiglia, si stabilirà poi in Paraguay, dove formerà i primi agronomi del paese e fonderà una colonia agricola e scientifica in un luogo che porta ancora oggi il suo nome: Puerto Bertoni. Personaggio complesso e poliedrico, Bertoni si è dedicato alla botanica (a lui si deve la prima descrizione della Stevia rebaudiana, alla sperimentazione agronomica, alla meteorologia, all'antropologia, alla linguistica, perfino all'attività editoriale, con la creazione di una tipografia nella foresta, e pure, fin dai primissimi anni, alla cartografia e all'idrografia. È su queste ultime attività ...
Navegando ríos paraguayos
El naturalista suizo Moisés Bertoni (1857-1929), que partió hacia Argentina en 1884 con su ya numerosa familia, se instaló tres años después en Paraguay, donde formó a los primeros agrónomos del país y fundó una colonia agrícola y científica en un lugar que aún lleva su nombre: Puerto Bertoni. Personaje complejo y polifacético, Bertoni se dedicó a la botánica (suya es la primera descripción de la Stevia rebaudiana), la experimentación agronómica, la meteorología, la antropología, la lingüística, incluso la edición de sus propias obras, con la creación de una imprenta en la selva. Y también, desde sus primeros años, a la cartografía y la hidrografía. En estas últi...
Medievalisms in a Global Age
Discusses contemporary medievalism in studies ranging from Brazil to West Africa, from Manila to New York. Across the world, revivals of medieval practices, images, and tales flourish as never before. The essays collected here, informed by approaches from Global Studies and the critical discourse on the concept of a "Global Middle Ages", explore the many facets of contemporary medievalism: post-colonial responses to the enforced dissemination of Western medievalisms, attempts to retrieve pre-modern cultural traditions that were interrupted by colonialism, the tentative forging of a global "medieval" imaginary from the world's repository of magical tales and figures, and the deployment across...
Pour une histoire des Alpes, Moyen Age et Temps Modernes
The Alps, as Professor Bergier shows in this selection of his work, should not be considered an impassable barrier, nor an isolated region, but rather as an integral part of the history of Europe. The lowlanders’ typical view of the mountains as fearful heights to be crossed, and the image of those who lived there as existing in a delicate balance with nature, are part only of the story. These articles are particularly concerned with transalpine traffic, and the different routes it took in response to changing circumstances in the lands to south and north, and with the exploitation and use of mountain resources. A number aim also to identify the particularities of the mountain way of life, and its social and political organisation.
The Government of Beans
The Government of Beans is about the rough edges of environmental regulation, where tenuous state power and blunt governmental instruments encounter ecological destruction and social injustice. At the turn of the twenty-first century, Paraguay was undergoing dramatic economic, political, and environmental change due to a boom in the global demand for soybeans. Although the country's massive new soy monocrop brought wealth, it also brought deforestation, biodiversity loss, rising inequality, and violence. Kregg Hetherington traces well-meaning attempts by bureaucrats and activists to regulate the destructive force of monocrops that resulted in the discovery that the tools of modern government are at best inadequate to deal with the complex harms of modern agriculture and at worst exacerbate them. The book simultaneously tells a local story of people, plants, and government; a regional story of the rise and fall of Latin America's new left; and a story of the Anthropocene writ large, about the long-term, paradoxical consequences of destroying ecosystems in the name of human welfare.
Autobiografia
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Frontier of Hope
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