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Imperial ascent : mountaineering, masculinity, and empire /

Annotation Study of mountaineering literature and how it is tied to imperial ideology and dominant notions of masculinity.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bayers, Peter L., 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Mountaineering and the Imagining of Imperial Masculinity
  • 1: Frederick Cook, To the Top of the Continent (1908), the Alaskan "Wilderness," and the Regeneration of Progressive-Era Masc
  • 2: Belmore Browne's The Conquest of Mount McKinley (1913), Alaska Natives, and White Masculine Anxieties on the Alaskan Front
  • 3: Save Whom From Destruction? Alaska Natives, Frontier Mythology, and the Regeneration of the White Conscience in Hudson Stu.
  • 4: Resurrecting Heroes: Sir Francis Younghusband's The Epic of Mount Everest (1926) and Post-Great War Britain
  • 5: Sir John Hunt's The Ascent of Everest (1953) and Nostalgia for the British Empire
  • 6: No Longer Sahibs: Tenzing Norgay and the 1953 British Expedition to Mount Everest
  • 7: Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air (1997), Postmodern Adventurous Masculinity, and Imperialism
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index.