The primary focus is on labour in a rural and manufacturing context, a topic that is considered from a variety of perspectives, including education, land use management, technology, and the use of new tools and machinery. Numerous types of evidence have been preserved in archives, libraries, and other historical institutions. Through evocative photographs from the holdings of the Accademia dei Georgofili, the digital library documents and evokes this agricultural world of the recent past. “Unrembered Worlds” sits within a framework of historiographical research that examines visual and material sources as particularly useful tools for reconstructing the social, cultural, political, and economic aspects of scientific and technological development.
The thematic digital library is published on the occasion of the exhibition “Unrembered Worlds…”