Piero Bevilacqua

The Profile

Historian from Calabria who has taught Contemporary History at La Sapienza University; known for work in landscape history and historical geography and for an approach influenced by the French Annales school.

Associated with the Annales tradition; connoisseur of landscape history and historical geography; author of La Terra È Finita, a short historical/economic/environmental essay published by Laterza in 2006.

The available review discusses Piero Bevilacqua's short essay La Terra È Finita (Laterza, 2006), an accessible historical/economic/environmental overview. It highlights Bevilacqua's Annales-influenced approach, attention to landscape history and historical geography, and a clear, conversational style aimed at general readers. The book sketches causes of late-20th-century environmental crises and debates such as the dust bowl and the Green Revolution.