The Pyrenees in the modern era : reinventions of a landscape, 1775-2012 /

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"This original study examines different incarnations of the Pyrenees, beginning with the assumptions of 18th-century geologists, who treated the mountains like a laboratory, and romantic 19th-century tourists and habitués of the spa resorts, who went in search of the picturesque and the sublim...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lyons, Martyn (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.
Subjects:
Tourism > Pyrenees.
Social & cultural history.
Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900.
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000.
European history.
TRAVEL > Europe > General.
Cycling.
Mountaineering.
Tourism.
Història.
Usos i costums.
Pyrenees > History.
Pyrénées > Histoire.
Pyrenees.
Pirineus.
History.
Llibres electrònics.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the Pyrenean world
  • Romancing the stones? The enlightenment invention of the Pyrenees
  • Visions of the picturesque : the romantic Pyrenees
  • Others among others
  • The railway age and the coming of mass tourism, 1853-1914
  • The heroic Pyrenees : the challenge of the peaks
  • Making the nation : cyclists and excursionists
  • Peoples of the frontier
  • Dangerous borderlands, 1936-1945
  • The anthropological gaze
  • The death of Cannelle and the green Pyrenees
  • The Pyrenees today.

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