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A PIONEERING EXAMINATION OF THE THREE-DIMENSIONALITY OF THE EARTH FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF HISTORY AND THE HUMANITIES
This book considers the variegated world of mountains and their development during the last 500 years. It takes as its starting point the United Nations environmental conference of 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, where the mountains were officially recognised as a topic of the world community. Important precedents for this new agenda were built in the early modern period and in the nineteenth century, as European societies began to exceed their traditional limitations. The book begins with an investigation of this long-term process with respect to science, culture and politics, each of which has transformed our attitudes toward mountainous regions. It then takes up historical problems that have been debated in the latest research, placing them in a comparative framework. At the book’s heart stands the question of whether and in what way the ‘three-dimensional history’ of mountain people may reveal distinctive forms of development.
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Reviews
‘Mathieu’s book sharpens the view of differences and changes - even in the mountains that look so immovable.’
Caroline Schnyder on the German edition, in Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 6 April 2011.
Author Biography
Jon Mathieu is professor of history at the University of Lucerne and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He was the founding director of the Instituto di Storia delle Alpi at the Università della Svizzera italiana and has organized several international conferences about the history of mountains. In 2008 he received the King Albert I Mountain Award for his research.
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher The White Horse Press
- Publication Date August 2011
- ISBN/Identifier 9781874267782
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 25 GBP
- Pages220
- ReadershipProfessional and Scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions6x9 inches
- Illustrationcolour illustrations
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