The mountain : a political history from the Enlightenment to the present /

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Author / Creator:	Debarbieux, Bernard, author.
Uniform title:	Faiseurs de montagne. English
Imprint:	Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2015] ©2015
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Mountain life -- History. Mountains -- Political aspects -- History. Mountain people -- History. Human geography. Mountain ecology. Human geography. Mountain ecology. Mountain life. Mountain people. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11247268

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Other authors / contributors:	Rudaz, Gilles, author. Todd, Jane Marie, 1957- translator. Price, Martin F., writer of foreword.
ISBN:	9780226031255 022603125X 9780226031118 022603111X
Notes:	"Originally published as Les faiseurs de montagne. © CNRS Éditions, 2010"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	InThe Mountain, geographers Bernard Debarbieux and Gilles Rudaz trace the origins of the very concept of a mountain, showing how it is not a mere geographic feature but ultimately an idea, one that has evolved over time, influenced by changes in political climates and cultural attitudes. To truly understand mountains, they argue, we must view them not only as material realities but as social constructs, ones that can mean radically different things to different people in different settings. 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, the book promises to forever change the way we look at mountains.
Other form:	Print version: Debarbieux, Bernard. Faiseurs de montagne. English. Mountain 9780226031118

Table of 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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