LEADER 03383nam 22004931a 450 001 9910511780903321 005 20200514202323.0 010 $a1-350-02481-3 010 $a1-350-02479-1 024 7 $a10.5040/9781350024816 035 $a(CKB)3840000000337240 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5202658 035 $a(OCoLC)1016156259 035 $a(UkLoBP)bpp09261746 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5202658 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11486288 035 $a(EXLCZ)993840000000337240 100 $a20180320d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun|---uuuua 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Pyrenees in the modern era$b[electronic resource] $ereinventions of a landscape, 1775-2012 /$fMartyn Lyons 205 $a1st ed. 210 $a[London] $cBloomsbury Academic$d2018 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 270 pages) $cmaps 311 $a1-350-12651-9 311 $a1-350-02478-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover -- 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. 330 $a"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 habitue?s 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."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 607 $aPyrenees$xHistory 607 $aPyrenees$xSocial life and customs 608 $aElectronic books. 676 $a946.5 700 $aLyons$b Martyn$0445753 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910511780903321 996 $aThe Pyrenees in the modern era$92553087 997 $aUNINA