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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.