A Italian Environmental Historiography in the New Millennium: Four ‘Short Histories’ Walter Palmieri Global Environment 12 (2019): 404–426 © 2019 The White Horse Press. doi: 10.3197/ge.2019.120209 relatively recent phenomenon in Italian historiography is the appearance of books on the environment that appraise ‘new’ studies which largely emerged during the 1990s. While in the USA the institution- alisation of environmental history started over forty years ago – the frst conference of the Organization of American Historians was in 1974, while the American Society