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Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in fin-de-siecle England and Germany (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in fin-de-siecle England and Germany (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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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, it
finds that upland trampers and climbers contested what it meant to
be modern, used those modern identities to make political claims on
rural space and rural people, and sought to define what a more
modern future society should be like.
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