The mountain : a political history from the Enlightenment to the present /

Debarbieux, Bernard,

The mountain : a political history from the Enlightenment to the present / by Bernard Debarbieux and Gilles Rudaz ; translated by Jane Marie Todd ; with a foreword by Martin F. Price. - Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource.

"Originally published as Les faiseurs de montagne. (c) CNRS Éditions, 2010"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The mountain as object of knowledge -- The mountain and the territoriality of the modern state -- The mountaineer : the other in the heart of the nation, or its emblematic figure? -- Politics of nature -- The mountain as living environment -- The mountain and colonial and postcolonial territoriality -- Exporting and acclimatizing regional planning models to the tropics -- The globalization of mountain issues -- Mountain men and women of globalization -- The EU mountain : nowhere to be found? -- The unifying mountain.



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Mountain life--History.
Mountains--Political aspects--History.
Mountain people--History.
Human geography.
Mountain ecology.


Electronic Books.

GT3490 / .M686 2015