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 this long-term process
with respect to science, culture and politics, each of which has
transformed our attitudes toward mountainous regions. It then takes
up historical problems that have been debated in the latest
research, placing them in a comparative framework. At the book's
heart stands the question of whether and in what way the
'three-dimensional history' of mountain people may reveal
distinctive forms of development.
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