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Book Synopsis Apostles of the Alps by : Tait Keller
Download or read book Apostles of the Alps written by Tait Keller and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Apostles of Mediaeval Europe by : George Frederick Maclear
Download or read book Apostles of Mediaeval Europe written by George Frederick Maclear and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Missions and Apostles of Mediaeval Europe by : George Frederick Maclear
Download or read book Missions and Apostles of Mediaeval Europe written by George Frederick Maclear and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Draw of the Alps by : Richard McClelland
Download or read book The Draw of the Alps written by Richard McClelland and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-10-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Emotions of Internationalism by : Ilaria Scaglia
Download or read book The Emotions of Internationalism written by Ilaria Scaglia and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis 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
Download or read book Narrative of an Excursion to the Mountains of Piemont, and Researches Among the Vaudois, Or Waldenses, Protestant Inhabitants of the Cottian Alps written by William Stephen Gilly and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Israel of the Alps by : Alexis Muston
Download or read book The Israel of the Alps written by Alexis Muston and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Consuming Landscapes by : Thomas Zeller
Download or read book Consuming Landscapes written by Thomas Zeller and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?
Book Synopsis The Israel of the Alps: a Complete History of the Vaudois of Piedmont and Their Colonies. Prepared in Great Part from Unpublished Documents ... Translated from the French by the Rev. J. Montgomery ... with ... Illustrations by : Alexis Muston
Download or read book The Israel of the Alps: a Complete History of the Vaudois of Piedmont and Their Colonies. Prepared in Great Part from Unpublished Documents ... Translated from the French by the Rev. J. Montgomery ... with ... Illustrations written by Alexis Muston and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Companion to the Reformation in Geneva by : Jon Balserak
Download or read book A Companion to the Reformation in Geneva written by Jon Balserak and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A description of the course of the Protestant Reformation in the city of Geneva from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
Book Synopsis Israel of the Alps - Vol. 1 by : Alexis Muston
Download or read book Israel of the Alps - Vol. 1 written by Alexis Muston and published by The Baptist Standard Bearer, Inc.. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Narrative of an Excursion to the Mountains of Piemont, and Researches Among the Vaudois, Or Waldenses ... With Maps, Plates, [facsimiles] and an Appendix, Containing Copies of Ancient Manuscripts, Etc by : William Stephen Gilly
Download or read book Narrative of an Excursion to the Mountains of Piemont, and Researches Among the Vaudois, Or Waldenses ... With Maps, Plates, [facsimiles] and an Appendix, Containing Copies of Ancient Manuscripts, Etc written by William Stephen Gilly and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Carpathians by : Patrice M. Dabrowski
Download or read book The Carpathians written by Patrice M. Dabrowski and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Carpathians, Patrice M. Dabrowski narrates how three highland ranges of the mountain system found in present-day Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine were discovered for a broader regional public. This is a story of how the Tatras, Eastern Carpathians, and Bieszczady Mountains went from being terra incognita to becoming the popular tourist destinations they are today. It is a story of the encounter of Polish and Ukrainian lowlanders with the wild, sublime highlands and with the indigenous highlanders—Górale, Hutsuls, Boikos, and Lemkos—and how these peoples were incorporated into a national narrative as the territories were transformed into a native/national landscape. The set of microhistories in this book occur from about 1860 to 1980, a time in which nations and states concerned themselves with the "frontier at the edge." Discoverers not only became enthralled with what were perceived as their own highlands but also availed themselves of the mountains as places to work out answers to the burning questions of the day. Each discovery led to a surge in mountain tourism and interest in the mountains and their indigenous highlanders. Although these mountains, essentially a continuation of the Alps, are Central and Eastern Europe's most prominent physical feature, politically they are peripheral. The Carpathians is the first book to deal with the northern slopes in such a way, showing how these discoveries had a direct impact on the various nation-building, state-building, and modernization projects. Dabrowski's history incorporates a unique blend of environmental history, borderlands studies, and the history of tourism and leisure.
Book Synopsis Narrative of an Excursion to the Mountains of Piemont, and Researches Among the Vaudois, Or Waldenses ... by : William Stephen Gilly
Download or read book Narrative of an Excursion to the Mountains of Piemont, and Researches Among the Vaudois, Or Waldenses ... written by William Stephen Gilly and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Historic Note-book by : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Download or read book Historic Note-book written by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donated by Sydney Harris.
Book Synopsis The Historic Note-book by : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Download or read book The Historic Note-book written by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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