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The Interwar World
Andrew Denning, Heidi J. S. Tworek
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R6,862
Discovery Miles 68 620
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With the combined knowledge and expertise of over 50 contributors
in the field, The Interwar World offers a unique and comprehensive
study between the years 1918 and 1939. Accessible for
undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars researching the period,
the volume is extremely valuable in its contribution to the field
of history itself, and for the education of students.
Skiing into Modernity is the story of how skiing moved from
Europe's Scandinavian periphery to the mountains of central Europe,
where it came to define the modern Alps and set the standard for
skiing across the world. Denning offers a fresh, sophisticated, and
engaging cultural and environmental history of skiing that alters
our understanding of the sport and reveals how leisure practices
evolve in unison with our changing relationship to nature. Denning
probes the modernist self-definition of Alpine skiers and the
sport's historical appeal for individuals who sought to escape city
strictures while achieving mastery of mountain environments through
technology and speed two central features distinguishing early
twentieth-century cultures. Skiing into Modernity surpasses
existing literature on the history of skiing to explore
intersections between work, tourism, leisure, development,
environmental destruction, urbanism, and more.
Skiing into Modernity is the story of how skiing moved from
Europe's Scandinavian periphery to the mountains of central Europe,
where it came to define the modern Alps and set the standard for
skiing across the world. Denning offers a fresh, sophisticated, and
engaging cultural and environmental history of skiing that alters
our understanding of the sport and reveals how leisure practices
evolve in unison with our changing relationship to nature. Denning
probes the modernist self-definition of Alpine skiers and the
sport's historical appeal for individuals who sought to escape city
strictures while achieving mastery of mountain environments through
technology and speed two central features distinguishing early
twentieth-century cultures. Skiing into Modernity surpasses
existing literature on the history of skiing to explore
intersections between work, tourism, leisure, development,
environmental destruction, urbanism, and more.
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