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Decommissioning The Twentieth Century (2023)
Book
Anderson, B., & Morgan, C. (2023). Decommissioning The Twentieth Century. London: Uniform Books

In the decades after 1945, Britain witnessed a dramatic period of technological innovation and expansion. The state transformed the countryside with grids of pylons, huge concrete edifices, and a new era of extraction, while both rural and urban soci... Read More about Decommissioning The Twentieth Century.

Conclusion (2020)
Book Chapter
Anderson, B. (2020). Conclusion. In Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in fin-de-siècle England and Germany (281-288). (1). Palgrave Macmillan: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54000-3_9

In the conclusion, a short analysis of a founding myth of ‘British’ rock climbing—the ‘Munich Climb’ incident—demonstrates how far contests over the meanings of modernity continued to shape mountain leisure cultures into the twentieth century. It goe... Read More about Conclusion.

Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in fin-de-siècle England and Germany (2020)
Book
Anderson, B. (2020). Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in fin-de-siècle England and Germany

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... Read More about Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in fin-de-siècle England and Germany.

Alpine agency: locals, mountaineers and tourism in the eastern Alps, c. 1860-1914 (2016)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2016). Alpine agency: locals, mountaineers and tourism in the eastern Alps, c. 1860-1914. Rural History, 61-78. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793315000163

Like other forms of tourism, the activities of Alpine visitors in the late nineteenth century have normally been understood as created by the tourists themselves. In the narratives of both contemporaries and subsequent historians, local people tend t... Read More about Alpine agency: locals, mountaineers and tourism in the eastern Alps, c. 1860-1914.