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Jon Mathieu

THE THIRD DIMENSION

A COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF MOUNTAINS IN THE MODERN ERA

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A pioneering examination of the three-dimensionality of the earth from the perspective of history and the humanities. This book considers the variegated world of mountains and their development during the last 500 years. It takes as its starting point the United Nations environmental conference of 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, where the mountains were officially recognised as a topic of the world community. Important precedents for this new agenda were built in the early modern period and in the nineteenth century, as European societies began to exceed their traditional limitations. The book begins with an investigation of thi… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-874267-78-2
  • EAN: 9781874267782
  • Produktnummer: 16554424
  • Verlag: White Horse Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 224 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.2 cm 332 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 332

Über den Autor


Jon Mathieu is professor of history at the University of Lucerne and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He was the founding director of the Instituto di Storia delle Alpi at the Universita della Svizzera italiana and has organized several international conferences about the history of mountains. In 2008 he received the King Albert I Mountain Award for his research.

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