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Economics 315

Saturday, January 12

Service Learning: Dry Terrace Wall Restoration


Weather permitting, today we will spend two hours assisting a local expert to repair the endangered dry terrace walls for which the Cinque Terre is so famous.

Dry Walls

Discussion Articles

Cipolla, Carlo M., “The Decline of Italy: The Case of a Fully Matured Economy,” The Economic History Review, 5 (1952), 178-187

Day, John, "The Levant Trade in the Middle Ages"

Pike, R., “The Genoese in Seville and the Opening of the New World,” The Journal of Economic History, 22 (September 1962), 348-378

Rapp, Richard T., “The Unmaking of the Mediterranean Trade Hegemony: International Trade Rivalry and the Commercial Revolution,” The Journal of Economic History, 35 (September 1975), 499-525

Links

Terraces

The terraced walls of the Cinque Terre are listed as one of the world's most endangered sites by Archeology Magazine in its Nov./Dec. 1999 issue.

Read the European Union's Culture 2000 Programme  Smart History report on the geology, hydrology, and economics of the Cinque Terre's dry terrace walls.