The Pyrenees in the Modern Era

Reinventions of a Landscape, 1775-2012

Emeritus Professor Martyn Lyons (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2018
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-02478-6 (ISBN)

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This original study examines different incarnations of the Pyrenees, beginning with the assumptions of 18th-century geologists, who treated the mountains like a laboratory, and romantic 19th-century tourists and habitués of the spa resorts, who went in search of the picturesque and the sublime. The book analyses the individual visions of the heroic Pyrenees which in turn fascinated 19th-century mountaineers and the racing cyclists of the early Tour de France. Martyn Lyons also investigates the role of the Pyrenees during the Second World War as an escape route from Nazi-occupied France, when for thousands of refugees these dangerous borderlands became ‘the mountains of liberty’, and considers the place of the Pyrenees in recent times right up to the present day.

Drawing on travel writing, press reports and scientific texts in several languages, The Pyrenees in the Modern Era explores both the French and Spanish sides of the Pyrenees to provide a nuanced historical understanding of the cultural construction of one of Europe’s most prominent border regions. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of Europe’s cultural history in a transnational context.

Martyn Lyons is Emeritus Professor of History and European Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is the author of The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe (2012), Books: A Living History (2011) and Post-Revolutionary Europe, 1815-1856 (2006), among other works on revolutionary and Napoleonic France, and on the history of reading practices.

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1. Introduction: The Pyrenean World
2. Romancing the Stones? The Enlightenment Invention of the Pyrenees
3. Visions of the Picturesque: The Romantic Pyrenees
4. Others Among Others
5. The Railway Age and the Coming of Mass Tourism, 1853-1914
6. The Heroic Pyrenees: The Challenge of the Peaks
7. Making the Nation: Cyclists and Excursionists
8. Peoples of the Frontier
9. Dangerous Borderlands, 1936-1945
10. The Anthropological Gaze
11. The Death of Cannelle and the Green Pyrenees
12. The Pyrenees Today

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Erscheinungsdatum	13.06.2018
Zusatzinfo	3 Maps
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	565 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-02478-3 / 1350024783
ISBN-13	978-1-350-02478-6 / 9781350024786
Zustand	Neuware