The Pyrenees in the Modern Era Reinventions of a Landscape, 1775–2012

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...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author Lyons, Martyn
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published London Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2018
Bloomsbury Publishing
Bloomsbury Academic
Edition1
Subjects
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

Loading…
Abstract 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.
AbstractList 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 habitues of the spa resorts, who went in search of the picturesque and the sublime. It 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.
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.
Author Lyons, Martyn
Author_xml – sequence: 1
  givenname: Martyn
  surname: Lyons
  fullname: Lyons, Martyn
BookMark eNqNj01LAzEQhiN-oK09ehJkLyIeqpPPTY5a6gdU9FC8Lsnu1GrXjSZbpf_e4BYRvHgaHt5nXmZ6ZKvxDRJyQOFMgoBzk2vKJQATmqoN0ltDbujmDyRjJwFQRaVi0uySQYwvkCIAzXOxR46mc8weVgEbxJg9N1mb-M5XGJpsHOw-2Z7ZOuJgPfvk8Wo8Hd0MJ_fXt6OLydByyrQaCuoAHVeVKBWvbJlDjsZopkrFZlwJqoUGJh3TWDLknBsDaYEZXs20dYb3yWlXbOMCP-Pc120sPmp03i9i8etX-L-bG57ck859C_59ibEtvrUSmzbYuhhfjiQDpqRO5uHaxFDjky-6Og1CC5bS4y51tfev0S3DqvhzG1X8C5iwcpQ
ContentType eBook
DBID YSPEL
DEWEY 946.5
DOI 10.5040/9781350024816
DatabaseName Perlego
DatabaseTitleList



DeliveryMethod fulltext_linktorsrc
Discipline History & Archaeology
EISBN 1350024791
9781350024793
1350024805
9781350024809
Edition 1
ExternalDocumentID 9781350024809
9781350024793
EBC5202658
804842
9781350024816
Genre Electronic books
GroupedDBID -VX
38.
AABBV
AAOQF
ABARN
ABOVY
ACLGV
ADVEM
AERYV
AJFER
ALMA_UNASSIGNED_HOLDINGS
AZVBF
AZZ
BBABE
BBLSR
CZZ
DNNHO
DUGUG
EBSCA
ECOWB
I4C
JJU
XI1
YSPEL
ZBOWZ
ACHKY
ID FETCH-LOGICAL-a31286-41b0eb36d4c63dac707e99826c62f3641848025b28ec2e3339900eb293df8ab93
ISBN 1350024813
9781350024816
1350024791
9781350024793
1350024783
9781350024786
1350126519
9781350126510
IngestDate Fri Nov 08 05:40:20 EST 2024
Fri Nov 08 05:33:49 EST 2024
Mon Dec 16 23:38:15 EST 2024
Tue Dec 03 22:11:43 EST 2024
Mon Mar 11 05:29:29 EDT 2024
IsPeerReviewed false
IsScholarly false
LCCallNum_Ident DC611.P988 L966 2018
Language English
LinkModel OpenURL
MergedId FETCHMERGED-LOGICAL-a31286-41b0eb36d4c63dac707e99826c62f3641848025b28ec2e3339900eb293df8ab93
Notes History2018; txt
OCLC 1016156259
PQID EBC5202658
PageCount 270
ParticipantIDs askewsholts_vlebooks_9781350024809
askewsholts_vlebooks_9781350024793
proquest_ebookcentral_EBC5202658
perlego_books_804842
bloomsbury_books_9781350024816
ProviderPackageCode BBLSR
PublicationCentury 2000
PublicationDate 2018
2018-02-22
PublicationDateYYYYMMDD 2018-01-01
2018-02-22
PublicationDate_xml – year: 2018
  text: 2018
PublicationDecade 2010
PublicationPlace London
PublicationPlace_xml – name: London
PublicationYear 2018
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Bloomsbury Publishing
Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher_xml – sequence: 0
  name: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
– name: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
– name: Bloomsbury Publishing
– name: Bloomsbury Academic
SSID ssj0002008374
Score 2.3073823
Snippet This original study examines different incarnations of the Pyrenees, beginning with the assumptions of 18th-century geologists, who treated the mountains like...
SourceID askewsholts
proquest
perlego
bloomsbury
SourceType Aggregation Database
Publisher
SubjectTerms Cultural History
European History
HISTORY
Modern History
Pyrenees-History
Tourism
Subtitle Reinventions of a Landscape, 1775–2012
TableOfContents Introduction: The Pyrenean world - Romancing the stones? The Enlightenment invention of the Pyrenees - Visions of the picturesque: The romantic Pyrenees - Others among Others - The railway age and the coming of mass tourism, 1853–1914 - The heroic Pyrenees: The challenge of the peaks - Making the nation: Cyclists and excursionists - Peoples of the frontier - Dangerous borderlands, 1936–45 - The anthropological gaze - The death of Cannelle and the Green Pyrenees - The Pyrenees today - Notes - Select bibliography
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
Title The Pyrenees in the Modern Era
URI https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350024816?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
https://www.perlego.com/book/804842/the-pyrenees-in-the-modern-era-reinventions-of-a-landscape-17752012-pdf
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/[SITE_ID]/detail.action?docID=5202658
https://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/openreader?id=none&isbn=9781350024793&uid=none
https://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/openreader?id=none&isbn=9781350024809
hasFullText 1
inHoldings 1
isFullTextHit
isPrint
link http://utb.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwnV3PT9swFH4acKEnGEwUtsqapt3CWjux3WtREUJj4sAQt8hJbISoUtR2k7K_fp-TNGkLEoJL1DqOq77Pfe977vtB9C1yoUqU5YEZyjSAxXeBBlEOMpMJoxxPjfUJzle_5MXv8PIuumt7N5bZJYvkNP33Yl7Je1DFGHD1WbJvQLZZFAN4DXxxBcK4bpDf5m0L7nXhq1GW8VQle6y7mo1njaL9WUzrw2TsjyJfdfAHesPBH03AoOdewqsnU9eTZZRk5QkORFSWJ6sSFzf1YoSfahUKsT5vo9T02v0t2lIaOmMH9nF81Zxb-XgJoXy3rGaqqEtnNY9WtUz9h_5YG-9Qx8wfobyh2BfzDu0mzXeD-_FkZxN7P31mFEtLf7NHO9anf-zTB5t_pMOqikrBvjNfoteUbZCLA-oBALYEgD3kDACwCgAGAA7p9nx8c3YR1J0mAiNgoCU2adK3iZBZmEqRmVT1lYUjymUquRMyhB-swQ4Trm3KrRCgdX08AK6UOW2SofhE2_k0t0fE4EMr4aSRGlTTLyZ8l7fUhVy5gXWuS19XhBD_nZT_is_jVlJQma9P0v1hl3qtAONnEwaySwe1UOu7Gvo65F1iSwnH5bp1HHA8Hp1FHE55pI9fW_qEdtu9-pm2F7M_9gvo2SLp1TvmPxowLmg
link.rule.ids 306,780,784,786,27925
linkProvider ProQuest Ebooks
openUrl ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fsummon.serialssolutions.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.title=The+Pyrenees+in+the+Modern+Era&rft.au=Lyons%2C+Martyn&rft.date=2018-01-01&rft.pub=Bloomsbury+Publishing+Plc&rft.isbn=9781350024816&rft_id=info:doi/10.5040%2F9781350024816&rft.externalDocID=9781350024816
thumbnail_l http://utb.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/image/custom?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perlego.com%2Fbooks%2FRM_Books%2Fbloomsbury_pcloabeb%2F9781350024793.jpg
thumbnail_m http://utb.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/image/custom?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvle.dmmserver.com%2Fmedia%2F640%2F97813500%2F9781350024793.jpg
http://utb.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/image/custom?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvle.dmmserver.com%2Fmedia%2F640%2F97813500%2F9781350024809.jpg