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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Part I: Beginnings -- Introduction -- 1. Ecology, Alterity, and Resistance -- Part II : Ecology -- 2. Envisioning the Supramonte -- 3. Intimate Landscapes -- Part III : Alterity -- 4. Dark Frontier -- 5. Seeing Like a State, Seeing Like an ENGO -- Part IV : Resistance -- 6. Walking in Via Gramsci -- 7. Sin, Shame, and Sheep -- Part V: Post-Environmentalisms -- 8. Beyond Ethnographic Refusal -- 9. Hope and Mischief in the Global Dreamtimes -- Appendix: List of Acronyms -- Notes -- Glossary of Italian and Sardinian Words -- References -- Index.

Chapter 1. The bankers -- Chapter 2. The Parodi Bankers -- Chapter 3. Banking Institutions -- Chapter 4. Financial intermediation: the Rothschilds and the private bankers in the Kingdom of Sardinia -- Chapter 5. Private bankers in the economic and political system of unified Italy -- Chapter 6. The Parodis after the Italian unification.

ABSTRACT - Thesis of Sergio Fantini: HISTORY, DISTRIBUTION AND ECOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF OLD GROWTH FORESTS IN SARDINIA. Old forests globally play a very important role. The most widely used definition of primary forest is: "Naturally regenerated forest of native species, where there are no clearly visible indications of human activities and the ecological processes are not significantly disturbed" (FAO). Their biodiversity, their ability to mitigate CO2 emissions, and to globally and locally modify the water cycle and climate, make these fundamental ecosystems very important to be studied and preserved. Globally, it is well known that currently primary forests are in decline. Also in Sardinia, only a small percentage of the original forest heritage was saved from the deforestation that began in the early nineteenth century and continued until after the half of the twentieth century. Despite the great importance, there was not a complete knowledge of the consistency, structure, distribution, threats and types of ancient forests. This research tried to fill, at least in part, these gaps and produced a first characterisation of the ancient residual forests of Sardinia. The first phase of the study consisted in the research, identification and field mapping of the oldgrowth stands. The feedback provided by local experts from public forestry agencies and research institutes universities through the compilation of a questionnaire was essential. A total of 68 plots were surveyed throughout the island. The identification of old-growth features was based on: amount of large-size and old trees, tree species composition, canopy heterogeneity, occurrence and amount of deadwood. The main goal of this work was to determine the degree of old-growthness of each single plot and, for this reason, several structural variables were surveyed. Because no one single proxy indicator can be a measure of old-growthness alone, a structural index (Structural Heterogeneity Index, SHI) was elaborated in order to summarisethe above-mentioned variables in one single value. Finally, how the SHI varied among environmental or human-related factors was statistically evaluated. In the second part of the work, the relationship between the presence of great longhorn beetles (saproxylic beetles that play an important role as an ecosystem engineer) and the structure of old-growth holm oak, the most widespread and representative forest type present in Sardinia, was analysed. Finally, the degree of protection of the old-growth stands from the legislative point of view and from wildfire hazard, was studied. These analyses, performed in GIS environment, allowed to identify which surfaces of the old-growth stands were included in the regional protection network and, through the visibility analysis of the fire lookouts network, the risk ofold-growth forest fires was assessed. To do this, the application of a parametric method allowed an assessment and the creation of a vulnerability map through the integration of visibility, old-growthness and wildfire hazard parameters of each oldgrowth stand.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One The Guild System in Some Urban Realities -- 1 A Reading of the Relationship between Cities, Manufacturing Crafts and Guilds in Early Modern Italy -- 2 The Changing Role of the Guilds in the Reorganisation of the Milanese Economy throughout the Sixteenth and the Eighteenth Centuries -- 3 Trade Guilds, Manufacturing and Economic Privilege in the Kingdom of Sardinia during the Eighteenth Century -- 4 The Guild System in Sardinia in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

For the anthropologist, the work of mining seems to be characterised by a specific set of spatial, material, corporeal and sensorial relations. On-going debates in anthropology emphasize the prominence of a direct approach to this range of features of experience, in correlation with a need to understand how they are connected with social meanings. This article uses such an approach to investigate how the sensory expe- riences of mining are shared by miners as a community of practice. At the same time, the historical decline of mining activity is inexorably restricting mining landscapes and cultures to the heritage of the past. In European mining districts, such as South West Sardinia (Italy), a rich heritage of the memory of an abandoned mining world coexists with a number of advanced, government subsidised mining plants that are just ceasing to be active. In this context, a particular form-of-life seems to appear that links miners, witnesses of a recent mining past, with local communities that are still entangled in mining activity. The existence of a rich aural sensitivity underground, recorded by the research project's filmmaking, is closely related to the way in which former miners "give voice to" and "feel" what they are saying. Sensory landscapes of mining life are linked to the subjective voices which express their history and memory. Starting from an ethnographic research, I shall discuss the relationship between performative aspects of oral memory, and the aural and visual dimensions of modern-day mining work.

Abstract The groundwater bodies in the European Union should be classified on the basis of their chemical status according to the European regulations. To this purpose, the background values for electrical conductivity, chloride, sulfate, fluoride and lead in groundwater bodies hosted in carbonatic rocks in Sardinia (Italy) were estimated. Background values were dependent on geological (lithology and mineralization) and geographical (distance from the coast) features of aquifers. Results indicate that statistical methods should be integrated with hydrogeochemical investigations for a correct assessment of the background values.

The unification of Italian public debts in 1861 has been analysed until now without any detailed investigation into the changes that occurred in pre-existent public finance models, particularly as regards the contextualisation of public debt within the evolving framework of Italian capitalism. The Kingdom of Sardinia imposed on the other Italian regions not merely a state, bureaucratic and administrative system, but also an economic and financial one: a modern liberal-capitalist model of northern European origin and inspiration. The transition and incorporation of the Neapolitan public debt into the Great Book of the Italian Public Debt bear witness to this change. The aim of the present article is to investigate the transformation of the Italian public debt's structure. I explore specifically the effects of the shift from registered bonds to bearer bonds in Naples, as exemplifying a more radical metamorphosis and the transition from a public finance model typical of the ancien régime to the modern liberal-capitalist one, which is characterised by the Kingdom of Sardinia.

It was under the protectorate of the Kingdom of Sardinia (House of Savoy) that the citizens of Menton and Roquebrune declared independence from Monaco and pronounced themselves citizens of free cities ("villes libres") in 1848. Including the provincial hinterlands of both cities, this action was to reduce the size of the Principality of Monaco by 80%. These points of martial law command fealty to Charles Albert, King of Sardinia, proscribing demonstrations against the Sardinian occupation of Menton and Roquebrune. Digitized from the holdings at Archivio di Stato di Torino, Turin, Italy. PAESI - MONACO - Mazzo 12, non inventariata. Marked 53159. ; Electronic reproduction;

The world's cultural diversity is at risk because of the current process of language desertification. Few places in the Mediterranean can boast the language diversity of Sardinia -a territory of 24,000 km2 filled with languages and dialects. According to Moseley (2010) -and a similar scenario is described by Simons and Fennig (2017)-, all the local languages (Algherese Catalan, Gallurese, Sassarese, Sardinian and Tabarchin Ligurian) are 'definitely endangered' and being replaced by Italian. Language policies at the official level do not seem to be able to revert the dramatic situation with these endangered languages, and their preservation is mostly left to the commitment of individuals, often with little recognition or help. As a result, the Sardinian languages live in a situation of diglossia, being mainly associated with folkloric matters which, in turn, reinforces a perception of uselessness. Nonetheless, studies published by the Sardinian government show that society considers that the languages of Sardinia must be protected, and some interesting grass-roots actions related to technologies have been carried out. This article will describe recent examples of digital products which have been translated into or developed in some of the languages of Sardinia, mostly by volunteers and activists, with the aim of exploring how endangered communities can use technologies to contribute to the preservation of their languages