Cities Mountains And Being Modern In Fin De Siècle England And Germany

Author : Ben Anderson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137540003

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Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in fin-de-siècle England and Germany by Ben Anderson Pdf

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.

Author : Richard McClelland
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : Anna-Katharina Wöbse,Patrick Kupper
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110665789

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Greening Europe by Anna-Katharina Wöbse,Patrick Kupper Pdf

Today, the environment seems omnipresent in European policy within and beyond the European Union. The idea of a shared European environment, however, has come a long way and is still being contested. Greening Europe focuses on the many ways people have interacted with nature and made it an issue of European concern. The authors ask how notions of Europe mattered in these activities and they expose the many entanglements of activists across the subcontinent who set out to connect and network, and to exchange knowledge, worldviews, and strategies that exceeded their national horizons. Moving beyond human agency, the handbook also highlights the eminent role nature played in both "greening" Europe and making Europe a shared environment.

Author : Marco Armiero,Roberta Biasillo,Stefano Morosini
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 : Dawn Hollis,Jason König
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350162846

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Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity by Dawn Hollis,Jason König Pdf

Throughout the longue dureé of Western culture, how have people represented mountains as landscapes of the imagination and as places of real experience? In what ways has human understanding of mountains changed – or stayed the same? Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity opens up a new conversation between ancient and modern engagements with mountains. It highlights the ongoing relevance of ancient understandings of mountain environments to the postclassical and present-day world, while also suggesting ways in which modern approaches to landscape can generate new questions about premodern responses. It brings together experts from across many different disciplines and periods, offering case studies on topics ranging from classical Greek drama to Renaissance art, and from early modern natural philosophy to nineteenth-century travel writing. Throughout, essays engage with key themes of temporality, knowledge, identity, and experience in the mountain landscape. As a whole, the volume suggests that modern responses to mountains participate in rhetorical and experiential patterns that stretch right back to the ancient Mediterranean. It also makes the case for collaborative, cross-period research as a route both for understanding human relations with the natural world in the past, and informing them in the present.

Author : Carlos Larrinaga,Donatella Strangio
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031458897

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The Development of the Hotel and Tourism Industry in the Twentieth Century by Carlos Larrinaga,Donatella Strangio Pdf

This edited collection explores the pivotal role of the hotel industry in building Western Europe’s tourism economy during the 20th century. The book brings together ten contributions focused on the same period, 1900-1970, to offer comparative perspectives from across the region including Italy, Switzerland, France, Spain and Britain. Drawing on historical case studies, chapters illuminate the different factors linking hotels and the broader tourism system including interventions of the public authorities and the State, the importance of private involvement, commercial strategies, the medium-term development of private hotels, hotel entrepreneurship, and the impact of economic crises and wars. By placing differing national approaches taken to the growth of the hotel industry in comparison, the book aims to fill a gap in the historiography of European hospitality and shed light on the wider impact of hotels and tourism on economic development at both a national and regional level. It will be of interest to a range of scholars, including in economic and business history, tourism studies, the history of tourism management, and social history.

Author : Jason König
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691238494

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The Folds of Olympus by Jason König Pdf

A cultural and literary history of mountains in classical antiquity The mountainous character of the Mediterranean was a crucial factor in the history of the ancient Greek and Roman world. The Folds of Olympus is a cultural and literary history that explores the important role mountains played in Greek and Roman religious, military, and economic life, as well as in the identity of communities over a millennium—from Homer to the early Christian saints. Aimed at readers of ancient history and literature as well as those interested in mountains and the environment, the book offers a powerful account of the landscape at the heart of much Greek and Roman culture. Jason König charts the importance of mountains in religion and pilgrimage, the aesthetic vision of mountains in art and literature, the place of mountains in conquest and warfare, and representations of mountain life. He shows how mountains were central to the way in which the inhabitants of the ancient Mediterranean understood the boundaries between the divine and the human, and the limits of human knowledge and control. He also argues that there is more continuity than normally assumed between ancient descriptions of mountains and modern accounts of the picturesque and the sublime. Offering a unique perspective on the history of classical culture, The Folds of Olympus is also a resoundingly original contribution to the literature on mountains.

Author : Jeff Smoot
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781680513332

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All and Nothing by Jeff Smoot Pdf

"...an excellent resource for anyone interested in the history and psychology of free soloing." -- Steve Potter ― Climbing Magazine An insider’s perspective on free soloing From the author of the critically acclaimed Hangdog Days Examines what motivates people to climb without a rope Once considered a fringe activity, climbing without a rope has entered the mainstream consciousness, largely because of the Oscar-winning documentary Free Solo featuring professional climber Alex Honnold. Yet climbers have been free soloing all along—motivated by reasons as varied as the climbers themselves. All and Nothing delves into the cultural history of free soloing, ranging across the storied climbing cultures of the Alps, Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, Joshua Tree, Yosemite, the Gunks, Eldorado Canyon, and several other locales. Writer and climber Jeff Smoot explores the interplay of climbing and risk, as well as psychological theories, evolving ethics, the effect of media coverage (particularly the portrayal of extreme sports), and shares original interviews with dozens of free soloists. Smoot also recounts his personal experiences climbing without a rope in the same era as talented climbers like Mark Twight and Peter Croft. From inside his complex connection to free soloing, he examines our relationship with risk, how we perceive our sense of control, and our perspective on mortality.

Author : Jennifer Jenkins
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0801440254

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Provincial Modernity by Jennifer Jenkins Pdf

Explains why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to planetary survival and offers suggestions for how to create a more time-literate society.

Author : Jennifer Jenkins
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501731297

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Provincial Modernity by Jennifer Jenkins Pdf

A history of the making of public culture in Imperial Germany, Provincial Modernity challenges traditional accounts of the rise and fall of German liberalism and the meaning given to the "cultural work" of the German middle classes. With an interdisciplinary approach that ranges from political history to modernist art and architecture, Jennifer Jenkins explores the role that local tradition, memory, history, culture, and environment played in nineteenth-century conceptions of citizenship and community in Hamburg. Eighteen black-and-white illustrations and one color illustration enhance her portrait of the city in question. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Jenkins focuses on the city's cultural institutions, particularly the Hamburg Art Museum and its director, Alfred Lichtwark, who inspired a citywide movement of political and cultural reform. Lichtwark, who became one of Imperial Germany's most important cultural politicians, worked with the city's elites and its civic associations, both middle and working class. Together, they promoted "aesthetic education" in the interest of forging a liberal society. Lichtwark and the movement he inspired saw the educated middle classes as the custodians of national culture, believed education and civic morality to be vehicles for the creation of modern citizens, and argued that vital regional identities were essential to the making of a liberal national community. In so doing, they defined and promoted a distinctive northern German form of modernist culture in art and architecture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1352 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005551309

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New Outlook by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1194 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000020212704

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Outlook and Independent by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alfred Emanuel Smith,Francis Walton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1328 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015039375582

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Outlook by Alfred Emanuel Smith,Francis Walton Pdf

Author : Henry Ward Beecher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Christianity
ISBN : WISC:89092857366

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The Christian Union by Henry Ward Beecher Pdf

Author : J A Mangan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781135296667

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Shaping the Superman by J A Mangan Pdf

This is a study of masculinity as a metaphor and especially of the muscular male body as a moral symbol. It explores the Nazi's preoccupation with the male body as an icon of political power, and the ideology and theories which propelled it.