Titlebook: Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in fin-de-siècle England and Germany; Ben Anderson Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Auth

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Constructing the Alps,bitions—came to be inscribed onto the Alps. Urban mountaineers presented the Alps as a visual, controlled and static landscape in the city to be examined with the carefully controlled gaze of the bourgeois individual. This same group of (almost always) men then wrote those same experiences onto the

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Time,eemed to be stuck in it. They were obsessed with the future, their place in it and what modern progress might be. They were obsessed with timekeeping—from records to punctuality and timekeeping. They were even obsessed with the contemporary reconceptualisation of time, from abstract ‘universal time’

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Risk and Danger,uideless’ mountaineering in the 1880s, a period of female mountaineering ascendancy and a male obsession with danger in the 1890s, and newly politicised and self-aware guides in the early years of the new century. In each case, this chapter argues, these contests emerged in parallel to wider social

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Beyond the Nation,gues that national identity has often obscured other forms of politics in rural leisure. First, it demonstrates just how fragile and complex those claims to nation were for mountaineers and ramblers by showing how seemingly straightforward ideas of Germanness or Englishness could be cut across by th

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Conclusion,eanings of modernity continued to shape mountain leisure cultures into the twentieth century. It goes on to explore the implications of understanding outdoors leisure as a means through which mountaineers and ramblers could express their modernity, and how we might consider later movements of the tw

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Book 2020tead of an escape from or rejection of modernity, it finds that upland trampers and climbers contested what it meant to be modern, used those modern identities to make political claims on rural space and rural people, and sought to define what a more modern future society should be like..

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Abkürzungsverzeichnis zur Literaturple like mountaineers and ramblers who vociferously criticised urban, industrial society emerge not as anti-modern individuals, but self-consciously modern ones, who went into nature in order to be more modern.

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