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.

By: Debarbieux, Bernard [author.]Contributor(s): Rudaz, Gilles [author.] | Todd, Jane Marie, 1957- [translator.] | Price, Martin F [writer of foreword.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2015]Description: ix, 354 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780226031118; 022603111XUniform titles: Faiseurs de montagne. English Subject(s): Mountain life -- History | Mountains -- Political aspects -- History | Mountain people -- History | Human geography | Mountain ecologyDDC classification: 910.914/3 LOC classification: GT3490 | .D4313 2015
Contents:
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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"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.

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