The Pyrenees in the Modern Era

The Pyrenees in the Modern Era
Author: Martyn Lyons
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2018-02-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350024791

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.

The Pyrenees in the Modern Era

The Pyrenees in the Modern Era
Author: Martyn Lyons
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2018-02-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350024805

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.

Social and Ecological History of the Pyrenees

Social and Ecological History of the Pyrenees
Author: Ismael Vaccaro
Publisher: Left Coast Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2010-11-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 159874612X

This major work of historical ecology advances the integration of research on environmental and social systems, contributing important lessons for contemporary natural resource policy and management. A diverse, international region, the Pyrenees has been characterized as a quintessential example of rural areas across Europe and North America. The authors use qualitative and quantitative methods from economics, history, anthropology, and ecological science to integrate human agency and ecology across a landscape that moved from agricultural and pastoral production to industrialization, then experienced acute depopulation, and now is becoming a focus of conservation and tourism. The book shows how today’s most pressing resource policy challenges are best illuminated by this broad, long-term understanding of humans and landscapes.

Modern history

Modern history
Author: Israel Smith Clare
Publisher:
Total Pages: 346
Release: 1906
Genre: World history
ISBN:

Modern History

Modern History
Author: Peter Fredet
Publisher:
Total Pages: 780
Release: 1893
Genre: History, Modern
ISBN:

The Cambridge Modern History

The Cambridge Modern History
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 912
Release: 1904
Genre: Enlightenment
ISBN:

"The Cambridge Modern History" is a comprehensive modern history of the world, beginning with the 15th century age of Discovery, published by the Cambridge University Press in the United Kingdom and also in the United States.