Apostles Of The Alps

Author : Tait Keller
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469625041

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Apostles of the Alps by Tait Keller Pdf

Though the Alps may appear to be a peaceful place, the famed mountains once provided the backdrop for a political, environmental, and cultural battle as Germany and Austria struggled to modernize. Tait Keller examines the mountains' threefold role in transforming the two countries, as people sought respite in the mountains, transformed and shaped them according to their needs, and over time began to view them as national symbols and icons of individualism. In the mid-nineteenth century, the Alps were regarded as a place of solace from industrial development and the stresses of urban life. Soon, however, mountaineers, or the so-called apostles of the Alps, began carving the crags to suit their whims, altering the natural landscape with trails and lodges, and seeking to modernize and nationalize the high frontier. Disagreements over the meaning of modernization opened the mountains to competing agendas and hostile ambitions. Keller examines the ways in which these opposing approaches corresponded to the political battles, social conflicts, culture wars, and environmental crusades that shaped modern Germany and Austria, placing the Alpine borderlands at the heart of the German question of nationhood.

Author : Tait Keller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1469625059

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Apostles of the Alps by Tait Keller Pdf

"Though the Alps may appear to be a peaceful place, the famed mountains once provided the backdrop for a political, environmental, and cultural battle as Germany and Austria struggled to modernize. Tait Keller examines the mountains' threefold role in transforming the two countries, as people sought respite in the mountains, transformed and shaped them according to their needs, and over time began to view them as national symbols and icons of individualism" --

Author : Richard McClelland
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783111150536

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The Draw of the Alps by Richard McClelland Pdf

The Alps have exerted a hold over the German cultural imagination throughout the modern period, enthralling writers, artists, philosophers, scientists, and tourists alike. The Draw of the Alps interrogates the dynamics of this fascination. Though philosophical and aesthetic responses to Alpine space have shifted over time, the Alps continue to captivate at an individual and collective level. This has resulted in myriad cultural engagements with Alpine space, as this interdisciplinary volume attests. Literature, photography, and philosophy continue to engage with the Alps as a place in which humans pursue their cognitive and aesthetic limits. At the same time, individuals engage physically with the alpine environment, whether as visitors through the well-established leisure industry, as enthusiasts of extreme sports, or as residents who feel the acute end of social and environmental change. Taking a transnational view of Alpine space, the volume demonstrates that the Alps are not geographically peripheral to the nation-state but are a vibrant locus of modern cultural production. As The Draw of the Alps attests, the Alps are nothing less than a crucible in which understandings of what it means to be human have been forged.

Author : William Stephen Gilly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Piedmont (Italy)
ISBN : ZBZH:ZBZ-00078812

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Narrative of an Excursion to the Mountains of Piemont, and Researches Among the Vaudois, Or Waldenses, Protestant Inhabitants of the Cottian Alps by William Stephen Gilly Pdf

Author : Ilaria Scaglia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Emotions
ISBN : 9780198848325

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The Emotions of Internationalism by Ilaria Scaglia Pdf

The Emotions of Internationalism follows a number of international people and institutions active in the Alps in the 1920s and 1930s, exploring how they understood emotions and how they tried to employ them to achieve their political and non-political goals. Through the analysis of a broadspectrum of unpublished archival materials in four languages (English, French, Italian, and German), this study takes readers on an evocative, historical journey through the Alps. A wide range of characters populate its pages, from Heidi and the protagonists of novels and films set on the mountains,to Woodrow Wilson and other high-level political figures active both inside and outside of the League of Nations, to the alpinists and climbers engaged in hikes and international congresses, to the many children involved in camping trips, to the countless patients of the sanatoria for the treatmentof tuberculosis which for decades used to dot alpine villages and to excite the popular imagination.At the centre of the volume are people's emotions - real and imagined - from the resentment left after the First World War to the "friendship" evoked in speeches and concretely implemented in a number of alpine settings for a variety of purposes, to the "joy" that contemporaries saw as the key tonavigating the complexities of "modernity" and to avoiding another war. The result is a compelling overview of the institutions and people involved in international cooperation in the 1920s and 1930s, understood through the lens of the history of emotions.

Author : William Stephen Gilly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Piedmont
ISBN : HARVARD:HNPQHT

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Narrative of an Excursion to the Mountains of Piemont, and Researches Among the Vaudois, Or Waldenses ... by William Stephen Gilly Pdf

Author : Thomas Zeller
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781421444833

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Consuming Landscapes by Thomas Zeller Pdf

What we see through our windshields reflects ideas about our national identity, consumerism, and infrastructure. For better or worse, windshields have become a major frame for viewing the nonhuman world. The view from the road is one of the main ways in which we experience our environments. These vistas are the result of deliberate historical forces, and humans have shaped them as they simultaneously sought to be transformed by them. In Consuming Landscapes, Thomas Zeller explores how what we see while driving reflects how we view our societies and ourselves, the role that consumerism plays in our infrastructure, and ideas about reshaping the environment in the twentieth century. Zeller breaks new ground by comparing the driving experience and the history of landscaped roads in the United States and Germany, two major automotive countries. He focuses specifically on the Blue Ridge Parkway in the United States and the German Alpine Road as case studies. When the automobile was still young, an early twentieth-century group of designers—landscape architects, civil engineers, and planners—sought to build scenic infrastructures, or roads that would immerse drivers in the landscapes that they were traversing. As more Americans and Europeans owned cars and drove them, however, they became less interested in enchanted views; safety became more important than beauty. Clashes between designers and drivers resulted in different visions of landscapes made for automobiles. As strange as it may seem to twenty-first-century readers, many professionals in the early twentieth century envisioned cars and roads, if properly managed, as saviors of the environment. Consuming Landscapes illustrates how the meaning of infrastructures changed as a result of use and consumption. Such changes indicate a deep ambivalence toward the automobile and roads, prompting the question: can cars and roads bring us closer to nature while deeply altering it at the same time?

Author : Jon Balserak
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004404397

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A Companion to the Reformation in Geneva by Jon Balserak Pdf

A description of the course of the Protestant Reformation in the city of Geneva from the 16th to the 18th centuries.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : English language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012270919

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Fact, Fancy, and Fable by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU52660702

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The Historic Note-book by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer Pdf

Author : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : History
ISBN : HARVARD:HWBD4N

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Historic Note-book by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer Pdf

Donated by Sydney Harris.

Author : Sean Moore Ireton,Caroline Schaumann
Publisher : Studies in German Literature L
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640140479

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Mountains and the German Mind by Sean Moore Ireton,Caroline Schaumann Pdf

The first scholarly English translations of thirteen vital texts that elucidate the central role mountains have played across nearly five centuries of Germanophone cultural history.

Author : Thomas Nelson
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 10358 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001-03-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781418539818

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Nelson's Dictionary of Christianity by Thomas Nelson Pdf

This dictionary provides definitions for over 7,000 terms and names in the history of Christianity. The topics range from the foundational theological developments of the early church to the divisions of the Protestant Reformation to the missionary enterprises of the last two centuries. Nelson's Dictionary of Christianity is an essential resource for anyone who wants to know more about how Christians have lived, built the church, and worked to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ around the world.

Author : Marco Armiero,Roberta Biasillo,Stefano Morosini
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000624144

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Rethinking Geographical Explorations in Extreme Environments by Marco Armiero,Roberta Biasillo,Stefano Morosini Pdf

Focusing on extreme environments, from Umberto Nobile’s expedition to the Arctic to the commercialization of Mt Everest, this volume examines global environmental margins, how they are conceived and how perceptions have changed. Mountaintops and Arctic environments are the settings of social encounters, political strategies, individual enterprises, geopolitical tensions, decolonial practises, and scientific experiments. Concentrating on mountaineering and Arctic exploration between 1880 – 1960, contributors to this volume show how environmental marginalisation has been discursively implemented and materially generated by foreign and local actors. It examines to what extent the status and identity of extreme environments has changed during modern times, moving them from periphery to the centre and discarding their marginality. The first section looks at ways in which societies have framed remoteness, through the lens of commercialization, colonialism, knowledge production and sport, while the second examines the reverse transfer, focusing on how extreme nature has influenced societies, through international network creation, political consensus and identity building. This collection enriches the historical understanding of exploration by adopting a critical approach and offering multidimensional and multi-gaze reconstructions. This book is essential reading for students and scholars interested in environmental history, geography, colonial studies and the environmental humanities.

Author : Joseph Denham Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000673691

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A Voice from the Alps; Or, The Vaudois Valleys. With Scenes by the Way by Joseph Denham Smith Pdf