
The Pyrenees in the Modern Era
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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.
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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, 1936-1945
10. The Anthropological Gaze
11. The Death of Cannelle and the Green Pyrenees
12. The Pyrenees Today
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