Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in fin-de-siècle England and Germany
This book is the first transnational history of rambling and mountaineering. Focussing on the critical turn-of-the-century era, it offers new insights into alpine development, attitudes to danger, cultures of time, internationalism and domesticity in the outdoors. It charts an emerging group of mass tourist activities, and argues that these thousands of walkers and climbers can only be understood within the context of the urban cultures from which most of them came. In doing so, it offers a fresh perspective on the relationship of alpinists and countryside enthusiasts to the modern world. Instead of an escape from or rejection of modernity, i…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-137-54000-3
- EAN: 9781137540003
- Produktnummer: 33363107
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 302 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'003 KB
- Abbildungen: Bibliographie
Über den Autor
Benjamin M. Anderson is a multi-award winning Lecturer in Twentieth Century European History at Keele University, UK, as well as a BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinker 2018 who has published and broadcast widely on environmental histories of leisure. He is also an enthusiastic, if recently-lapsed mountaineer and climber.
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