Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in fin-de-siecle England and Germany (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Ben Anderson
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	302
Edition:	1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-53999-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	1-137-53999-2
Barcode:	9781137539991

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