Communautés locales, biens communs et ressources collectives entre période jacobine et Empire napoléonien en Italie: les «comunaglie» liguriennes

[Machine translation] The essay is dedicated to the case-study of common resources in the “French” and Napoleonic period in Liguria, and in particular to the discussion about the management and transformation of those lands on which local communities exercised collective rights, locally known as municipalities. The analysis focuses on part of the enormous documentary production that characterized the establishment and consolidation of that new political system, and in particular on two subsequent investigations (one related to 1799, and the other carried out shortly after the annexation to the Empire, in 1806), which allow us to make organic considerations on the articulation of collective property at the regional level in those years. Reading these dynamics in the light of political and administrative redefinitions, the discussion on two important themes of recent historiographical discussion intersects in an original way: the history of the management of environmental resources and that concerning central political power and its reorganization at the territorial level, showing the complex relationship between forms of local organization (the history of local political space), strategies for claiming rights over the resources themselves (the history of the Commons, the history of the forms of ownership) and environmental transformation (the history of the environment).