In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo, and Wilko Graf Von Hardenberg are interviewed on their recent book, Mussolini’s Nature: An Environmental History of Italian Fascism.
Interactive story map by Paolo Gruppuso on urban ecologies in Latina, Italy.
This article analyzes the role of soil in the making of authoritarian regimes and illustrates twentieth-century practices and discourses related to fertility across the globe.
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg percorre a ritroso i paesaggi della sua infanzia e riflette sulle politiche di gestione delle acque durante gli anni del regime fascista in Italia.
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg discusses the ways water management policies shaped the landscape of his childhood during the years of the Fascist regime in Italy.
The Hongerwinter was a major famine that occurred in the Netherlands, particularly in the Nazi-occupied western part of the country. Twenty-two thousand people died and 4.5 million were affected by the direct and indirect consequences of the famine.
The article considers the example of dummy tanks used to deceive the enemy during WWII, the false expectations of the Allied forces that led them to believe that Franco’s fascist regime would fall long before it did, and the therapeutic promises offered by messianic leaders of totalitarian regimes.
