The Mountain
A Political History from the Enlightenment to the Present
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
One / The Mountain as Object of Knowledge
Part I: The Mountain of States and Nations
Two / The Mountain and the Territoriality of the Modern State
Three / The Mountaineer: The Other in the Heart of the Nation, or Its Emblematic Figure?
Four / Politics of Nature
Five / The Mountain as Living Environment
Part II: The Mountain on a Global Scale
Six / The Mountain and Colonial and Postcolonial Territoriality
Seven / Exporting and Acclimatizing Regional Planning Models to the Tropics
Eight / The Globalization of Mountain Issues
Nine / Mountain Men and Women of Globalization
Ten / The EU Mountain: Nowhere to Be Found?
Eleven / The Unifying Mountain
Conclusion
Notes
Index
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Earth Sciences: General Earth Sciences
Geography: Cultural and Historical Geography | Environmental Geography | Social and Political Geography
History: History of Ideas
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