"Though the Alps may appear to be a peaceful place, the famed mountains once provided the backdrop for a political, environmental, and cultural battle as Germany and Austria struggled to modernize. Tait Keller examines the mountains' threefold role in transforming the two countr…
"Though the Alps may appear to be a peaceful place, the famed mountains once provided the backdrop for a political, environmental, and cultural battle as Germany and Austria struggled to modernize. Tait Keller examines the mountains' threefold role in transforming the two countr…
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Citations and Translation -- Abbreviations Used in the Text -- Introduction: Disenchanted Mountains -- PART ONE: Opening the Alps, 1860-1918 -- 1 Civilizing the Crags Urban Adventurers Modernize the Mountains -- 2 Peaks and Progres…
"Though the Alps may appear to be a peaceful place, the famed mountains once provided the backdrop for a political, environmental, and cultural battle as Germany and Austria struggled to modernize. Tait Keller examines the mountains' threefold role in transforming the two countr…
Introduction: disenchanted mountains -- Civilizing the crags: urban adventurers modernize the mountains -- Peaks and progress: alpine reveries, bourgeois dreams, and national fantasies -- Young people and old mountains: commercialism and conservationism tangle in the Alps -- The…
La 4e de couverture indique : "Though the Alps may appear to be a peaceful place, the famed mountains once provided the backdrop for a political, environmental, and cultural battle as Germany and Austria struggled to modernize. Tait Keller examines the mountains' threefold role …
"Though the Alps may appear to be a peaceful place, the famed mountains once provided the backdrop for a political, environmental, and cultural battle as Germany and Austria struggled to modernize. Tait Keller examines the mountains' threefold role in transforming the two countr…
"Though the Alps may appear to be a peaceful place, the famed mountains once provided the backdrop for a political, environmental, and cultural battle as Germany and Austria struggled to modernize. Tait Keller examines the mountains' threefold role in transforming the two countr…
"Though the Alps may appear to be a peaceful place, the famed mountains once provided the backdrop for a political, environmental, and cultural battle as Germany and Austria struggled to modernize. Tait Keller examines the mountains' threefold role in transforming the two countr…