Giacomo Bonan
Biographic Data
| ID | 910516 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giacomo Bonan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giacomo |
| FAMILY NAME | Bonan |
| SIGNATURE | BONAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3743-2440 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Old woods, new rule: The annexation of Veneto to the Kingdom of Italy from a forest history perspective
This paper analyses the period following the annexation of Veneto to the Kingdom of Italy in 1866 from the standpoint of forest history. Recent historiography has demonstrated that the development of scientific forestry was a crucial factor in the state-building process. Post-unification Veneto provides an opportunity to explore these dynamics from a decentralised perspective, focusing on two critical aspects, relevant in Italy as in many other c…
The End of the Montello Woodland: Institutional Change, Economic Transformation and Rural Conflict in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy
The article explores the reciprocal interaction of administrative and economic modernisation in shaping nineteenth-century forest landscapes and governance. The research focuses on the Montello woodland in northeastern Italy, considered a strategic state asset throughout the early-modern period due to the abundance of oaks essential for shipbuilding. Economic, institutional, and social changes in the late nineteenth century brought this system in…
Hydraulic Engineers and Antiquarians: Political Use of the Past in Nineteenth-Century Venice
The article analyzes the relationship between hydraulics and history in the nineteenth century, often described as a period when the humanities and the sciences split into "two separate cultures." Venice, amphibious city par excellence, is a good starting point for exploring the use of history in water management debates. In the early nineteenth century, humanists and hydraulic engineers came together through multiple disciplinary approaches and …
Common Forest, Private Timber: Managing the Commons in the Italian Alps
The two key stakeholders in the commercial exploitation of the common woodlands in the eastern Italian Alps from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century were the mountain communities, which had ownership or right of use of the woodlands, and the timber merchants, who had the capital and skills to transform those woodlands into valuable commodities. A long-term perspective on the business of cutting, transporting, and marketing timber reveals the …
An Alpine Energy Transition: The Piave River from Charcoal to “White Coal”
This article analyzes the environmental history of the Industrial Revolution by examining the evolution of the usage and management of the waters of the Piave, a river stretching from the eastern Alps to the Venetian Plain. In the preindustrial period, the Piave played a fundamental role in defining the flows of raw materials and energy in the region, representing the main route for transporting timber—the most important resource of the time—from…
L'ambiente tra storia, scienza e politica
In recent years, the ecological crisis has raised growing concerns and provoked activism at the social, political and cultural levels. The issue has been important in the historiographical debate as well. The article offers an overview on how historians have dealt with the environmental question and, on the other hand, how the environmental question has influenced the historian's craft
Natural Time and Bureaucratic Time: State Building, Forests and Environmental Conflicts in the 1800s
Historians traditionally consider the Napoleonic period a key point in the process of state centralisation in most of continental Europe. This is certainly true of the legislative and administrative transformations overseen by state authorities during that epoch. However, there is still much to learn about the consequences of these changes on the ground, especially in peripheral regions. In this respect, an environmental history approach can prov…
Gli storici e l'Antropocene: Narrazioni, Periodizzazioni, Dibattiti
The communities and the comuni: The implementation of administrative reforms in the Fiemme Valley (Trentino, Italy) during the first half of the 19th century
This paper examines transformations in the common management of lands in a valley of the Trentino Alps during the process of Austro-Hungarian state centralization in the first half of 19th century. The main aspects of this process involved an administrative transformation that led to the abolition of all legal and institutional competences of the rural communities and their replacement with modern municipal corpora-tions, and new forest legislati…
Beni comuni: Alcuni Percorsi Storiografici
Commons: A few historiographical paths outlines some research perspectives on commons. A first line of research is within economic history. This is the most established because it was inspired by the debate on the effect of English enclosures and their role in the agricultural revolution. More recently, the study of commons has been influenced by neo-institutional research dealing with systems that can ensure efficient and sustainable resource ma…
Natural Time and Bureaucratic Time: State Building, Forests and Environmental Conflicts in the 1800s
Historians traditionally consider the Napoleonic period a key point in the process of state centralisation in most of continental Europe. This is certainly true of the legislative and administrative transformations overseen by state authorities during that epoch. However, there is still much to learn about the consequences of these changes on the ground, especially in peripheral regions. In this respect, an environmental history approach can prov…
The communities and the comuni: The implementation of administrative reforms in the Fiemme Valley (Trentino, Italy) during the first half of the 19th century
This paper examines transformations in the common management of lands in a valley of the Trentino Alps during the process of Austro-Hungarian state centralization in the first half of 19th century. The main aspects of this process involved an administrative transformation that led to the abolition of all legal and institutional competences of the rural communities and their replacement with modern municipal corpora-tions, and new forest legislati…
Old woods, new rule: The annexation of Veneto to the Kingdom of Italy from a forest history perspective
This paper analyses the period following the annexation of Veneto to the Kingdom of Italy in 1866 from the standpoint of forest history. Recent historiography has demonstrated that the development of scientific forestry was a crucial factor in the state-building process. Post-unification Veneto provides an opportunity to explore these dynamics from a decentralised perspective, focusing on two critical aspects, relevant in Italy as in many other c…
An Alpine Energy Transition: The Piave River from Charcoal to “White Coal”
This article analyzes the environmental history of the Industrial Revolution by examining the evolution of the usage and management of the waters of the Piave, a river stretching from the eastern Alps to the Venetian Plain. In the preindustrial period, the Piave played a fundamental role in defining the flows of raw materials and energy in the region, representing the main route for transporting timber—the most important resource of the time—from…
Gli storici e l'Antropocene: Narrazioni, Periodizzazioni, Dibattiti
Beni comuni: Alcuni Percorsi Storiografici
Commons: A few historiographical paths outlines some research perspectives on commons. A first line of research is within economic history. This is the most established because it was inspired by the debate on the effect of English enclosures and their role in the agricultural revolution. More recently, the study of commons has been influenced by neo-institutional research dealing with systems that can ensure efficient and sustainable resource ma…
Beni comuni: Alcuni Percorsi Storiografici
Commons: A few historiographical paths outlines some research perspectives on commons. A first line of research is within economic history. This is the most established because it was inspired by the debate on the effect of English enclosures and their role in the agricultural revolution. More recently, the study of commons has been influenced by neo-institutional research dealing with systems that can ensure efficient and sustainable resource ma…
The communities and the comuni: The implementation of administrative reforms in the Fiemme Valley (Trentino, Italy) during the first half of the 19th century
This paper examines transformations in the common management of lands in a valley of the Trentino Alps during the process of Austro-Hungarian state centralization in the first half of 19th century. The main aspects of this process involved an administrative transformation that led to the abolition of all legal and institutional competences of the rural communities and their replacement with modern municipal corpora-tions, and new forest legislati…
Natural Time and Bureaucratic Time: State Building, Forests and Environmental Conflicts in the 1800s
Historians traditionally consider the Napoleonic period a key point in the process of state centralisation in most of continental Europe. This is certainly true of the legislative and administrative transformations overseen by state authorities during that epoch. However, there is still much to learn about the consequences of these changes on the ground, especially in peripheral regions. In this respect, an environmental history approach can prov…
Gli storici e l'Antropocene: Narrazioni, Periodizzazioni, Dibattiti
An Alpine Energy Transition: The Piave River from Charcoal to “White Coal”
This article analyzes the environmental history of the Industrial Revolution by examining the evolution of the usage and management of the waters of the Piave, a river stretching from the eastern Alps to the Venetian Plain. In the preindustrial period, the Piave played a fundamental role in defining the flows of raw materials and energy in the region, representing the main route for transporting timber—the most important resource of the time—from…
L'ambiente tra storia, scienza e politica
In recent years, the ecological crisis has raised growing concerns and provoked activism at the social, political and cultural levels. The issue has been important in the historiographical debate as well. The article offers an overview on how historians have dealt with the environmental question and, on the other hand, how the environmental question has influenced the historian's craft
Common Forest, Private Timber: Managing the Commons in the Italian Alps
The two key stakeholders in the commercial exploitation of the common woodlands in the eastern Italian Alps from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century were the mountain communities, which had ownership or right of use of the woodlands, and the timber merchants, who had the capital and skills to transform those woodlands into valuable commodities. A long-term perspective on the business of cutting, transporting, and marketing timber reveals the …
Hydraulic Engineers and Antiquarians: Political Use of the Past in Nineteenth-Century Venice
The article analyzes the relationship between hydraulics and history in the nineteenth century, often described as a period when the humanities and the sciences split into "two separate cultures." Venice, amphibious city par excellence, is a good starting point for exploring the use of history in water management debates. In the early nineteenth century, humanists and hydraulic engineers came together through multiple disciplinary approaches and …
Old woods, new rule: The annexation of Veneto to the Kingdom of Italy from a forest history perspective
This paper analyses the period following the annexation of Veneto to the Kingdom of Italy in 1866 from the standpoint of forest history. Recent historiography has demonstrated that the development of scientific forestry was a crucial factor in the state-building process. Post-unification Veneto provides an opportunity to explore these dynamics from a decentralised perspective, focusing on two critical aspects, relevant in Italy as in many other c…
The End of the Montello Woodland: Institutional Change, Economic Transformation and Rural Conflict in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy
The article explores the reciprocal interaction of administrative and economic modernisation in shaping nineteenth-century forest landscapes and governance. The research focuses on the Montello woodland in northeastern Italy, considered a strategic state asset throughout the early-modern period due to the abundance of oaks essential for shipbuilding. Economic, institutional, and social changes in the late nineteenth century brought this system in…
Political science (7 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Historical and Environmental Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)