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The Pyrenees in the Modern Era : Reinventions of a Landscape, 1775-2012.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (280 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781350024793
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Pyrenees in the Modern EraDDC classification:
  • 946.5
LOC classification:
  • DC611.P988 L966 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of maps -- Acknowledgements -- Note on translations and transcriptions -- Abbreviations -- 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, 1936-45 -- 10. The anthropological gaze -- 11. The death of Cannelle and the Green Pyrenees -- 12. The Pyrenees today -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of maps -- Acknowledgements -- Note on translations and transcriptions -- Abbreviations -- 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, 1936-45 -- 10. The anthropological gaze -- 11. The death of Cannelle and the Green Pyrenees -- 12. The Pyrenees today -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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