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...

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Main Author Lyons, Martyn
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published London Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2018
Bloomsbury Publishing
Bloomsbury Academic
Edition1
Subjects
Cultural History
European History
HISTORY
Modern History
Pyrenees-History
Tourism
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Table of Contents:
  • 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