Mountains, mountaineering and modernity: a cultural history of German and Austrian mountaineering, 1900-1945

During the Weimar Republic, mountaineering organizations sought to establish hegemony over the cultural narrative of mountaineering. Contemporary texts published by various alpine organizations positioned mountaineering as an activity reserved for a select elite, casting alpinists as masculine natio...

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Main Author: Holt, Lee Wallace, 1974-
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/3901