The City & the Mountains
Author | : Eça de Queirós |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Portugal |
ISBN | : 9780835794800 |
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Author | : Eça de Queirós |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Portugal |
ISBN | : 9780835794800 |
Author | : Ben Anderson |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2020-01-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137540001 |
This book is the first transnational history of rambling and mountaineering. Focussing on the critical turn-of-the-century era, it offers new insights into alpine development, attitudes to danger, cultures of time, internationalism and domesticity in the outdoors. It charts an emerging group of mass tourist activities, and argues that these thousands of walkers and climbers can only be understood within the context of the urban cultures from which most of them came. In doing so, it offers a fresh perspective on the relationship of alpinists and countryside enthusiasts to the modern world. Instead 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.
Author | : David Stradling |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2009-11-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0295989890 |
For over two hundred years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City. In Making Mountains, David Stradling shows the transformation of the Catskills landscape as a collaborative process, one in which local and urban hands, capital, and ideas have come together to reshape the mountains and the communities therein. This collaboration has had environmental, economic, and cultural consequences. Early on, the Catskills were an important source of natural resources. Later, when New York City needed to expand its water supply, engineers helped direct the city toward the Catskills, claiming that the mountains offered the purest and most cost-effective waters. By the 1960s, New York had created the great reservoir and aqueduct system in the mountains that now supplies the city with 90 percent of its water. The Catskills also served as a critical space in which the nation's ideas about nature evolved. Stradling describes the great influence writers and artists had upon urban residents - especially the painters of the Hudson River School, whose ideal landscapes created expectations about how rural America should appear. By the mid-1800s, urban residents had turned the Catskills into an important vacation ground, and by the late 1800s, the Catskills had become one of the premiere resort regions in the nation. In the mid-twentieth century, the older Catskill resort region was in steep decline, but the Jewish "Borscht Belt" in the southern Catskills was thriving. The automobile revitalized mountain tourism and residence, and increased the threat of suburbanization of the historic landscape. Throughout each of these significant incarnations, urban and rural residents worked in a rough collaboration, though not without conflict, to reshape the mountains and American ideas about rural landscapes and nature.
Author | : David Kilcullen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2015-05-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190230967 |
A leading expert on counterinsurgency and counterterrorism offers a comprehensive theory of "competitive control" that will apply to the future of conflict in a world of explosive population growth, increased urbanization, the movement of population centers to the coasts, and global connective networks.
Author | : Janice Emily Bowers |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2022-08-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0816546991 |
A charming natural history (inclined to botany) of the Rincon Mountains of SE Arizona. But the location is not carefully specified.
Author | : Sir Richard Francis Burton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 748 |
Release | : 1861 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mark A. Nathan |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2018-07-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0824876156 |
At the start of the twentieth century, the Korean Buddhist tradition was arguably at the lowest point in its 1,500-year history in the peninsula. Discriminatory policies and punitive measures imposed on the monastic community during the Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910) had severely weakened Buddhist institutions. Prior to 1895, monastics were prohibited by law from freely entering major cities and remained isolated in the mountains where most of the surviving temples and monasteries were located. In the coming decades, profound changes in Korean society and politics would present the Buddhist community with new opportunities to pursue meaningful reform. The central pillar of these reform efforts was p’ogyo, the active propagation of Korean Buddhist teachings and practices, which subsequently became a driving force behind the revitalization of Buddhism in twentieth-century Korea. From the Mountains to the Cities traces p’ogyo from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. While advocates stressed the traditional roots and historical precedents of the practice, they also viewed p’ogyo as an effective method for the transformation of Korean Buddhism into a modern religion—a strategy that proved remarkably resilient as a response to rapidly changing social, political, and legal environments. As an organizational goal, the concerted effort to propagate Buddhism conferred legitimacy and legal recognition on Buddhist temples and institutions, enabled the Buddhist community to compete with religious rivals (especially Christian missionaries), and ultimately provided a vehicle for transforming a “mountain-Buddhism” tradition, as it was pejoratively called, into a more accessible and socially active religion with greater lay participation and a visible presence in the cities. Ambitious and meticulously researched, From the Mountains to the Cities will find a ready audience among researchers and scholars of Korean history and religion, modern Buddhist reform movements in Asia, and those interested in religious missions and proselytization more generally.
Author | : H. P. Lovecraft |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 2016-06-16 |
Genre | : Antarctica |
ISBN | : 1365199568 |
Initially rejected by Lovecraft's publisher, 'At The Mountains of Madness' is now considered a classic of the horror genre. The disturbing, nightmarish story of a journey through Antarctica and a discovery of secrets hidden in a frozen mountain range has influenced writers and film-makers for decades.
Author | : Yuko Tsushima |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2022-02-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1681375974 |
Set in 1970s Japan, this tender and poetic novel about a young, single mother struggling to find her place in the world is an early triumph by a modern Japanese master. Alone at dawn, in the heat of midsummer, a young woman named Takiko Odaka departs on foot for the hospital to give birth to a baby boy. Her pregnancy, the result of a brief affair with a married man, is a source of sorrow and shame to her abusive parents. For Takiko, however, it is a cause for reverie. Her baby, she imagines, will be hers and hers alone, a challenge that she also hopes will free her. Takiko’s first year as a mother is filled with the intense bodily pleasures and pains that come from caring for a newborn. At first she seeks refuge in the company of other women—in the hospital, in her son’s nursery—but as the baby grows, her life becomes less circumscribed as she explores Tokyo, then ventures beyond the city into the countryside, toward a mountain that captures her imagination and desire for a wilder freedom.
Author | : Labanya Ghosh |
Publisher | : Karadi Tales Picturebooks |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2020-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9788193654293 |
A young girl from Mumbai, India, is determined to show her friend from picturesque Ladakh that big cities have mountains too.