Apostles of the Alps : Mountaineering and Nation Building in Germany and Austria, 1860-1939 /

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"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 peo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Keller, Tait (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Mountaineering.
HISTORY > Europe > Austria & Hungary.
HISTORY > Europe > Germany.
Mountaineering > Alps, Eastern > History > 20th century.
Mountaineering > Alps, Eastern > History > 19th century.
Germany.
Austria.
Eastern Alps.
Autriche > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Autriche > Histoire > 1789-1900.
Allemagne > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Allemagne > Histoire > 1789-1900.
Alpes orientales > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Alpes orientales > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Austria > History > 20th century.
Austria > History > 1789-1900.
Germany > History > 20th century.
Germany > History > 1789-1900.
Alps, Eastern > History > 20th century.
Alps, Eastern > History > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: disenchanted mountains
  • Civilizing the crags: urban adventurers modernize the mountains
  • Peaks and progress: alpine reveries, bourgeois dreams, and national fantasies
  • Young people and old mountains: commercialism and conservationism tangle in the Alps
  • The high Alps in the Great War: soldiers and summits on the alpine front
  • Forbidden heights: lost mountains and the violence of alpine anti-Semitism
  • Mechanical mountains: movies and motors remake the Alps
  • Fascist landscapes: nature lovers and Nazi desperadoes on the alpine frontier
  • Conclusion: the retreat of nations.

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