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Debarbieux, Bernard,

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. - ix, 354 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

"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.

ISBN: 9780226031118 022603111X

LCCN: 2014045148

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Mountain life--History.
Mountains--Political aspects--History.
Mountain people--History.
Human geography.
Mountain ecology.

LC Class. No.: GT3490 / .D4313 2015

Dewey Class. No.: 910.914/3