The mountain : a political history from the Enlightenment to the present / Bernard Debarbieux and Gilles Rudaz ; translated by Jane Marie Todd ; with a foreword by Martin F. Price.

Main entry:

Debarbieux, Bernard, author.

Title & Author:

The mountain : a political history from the Enlightenment to the present / Bernard Debarbieux and Gilles Rudaz ; translated by Jane Marie Todd ; with a foreword by Martin F. Price.

Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2015]

Description:

ix, 354 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
"Originally published as Les faiseurs de montagne. © CNRS Éditions, 2010"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references 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.
Translated from the French.

Summary:

"From the Enlightenment to the present day, and using a variety of case studies from all the continents, the authors show us how our ideas of and about mountains have changed with the times and how a wide range of policies, from border delineation to forestry as well as nature protection and social programs, have been shaped according to them. A rich hybrid analysis of geography, history, culture, and politics."--Jacket.

ISBN:

9780226031118 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
022603111X (cloth ; alkaline paper)
(e-book)
9780226031255

Subject:

Mountain life History.
Mountains Political aspects History.
Mountain people History.
Human geography.
Mountain ecology.
Vie en montagne Histoire.
Montagnes Aspect politique Histoire.
Montagnards Histoire.
Écologie des montagnes.
Mountain life.
Mountain people.
Géographie humaine.
Humangeografi.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Rudaz, Gilles, author.
Todd, Jane Marie, 1957- translator.
Price, Martin F., writer of foreword.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290590
Call No.: BIB 233675
Status: Available

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