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