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Skiing into modernity: a cultural and environmental history

By Andrew , Denning

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780520284272, 9780520284289, 9780520959897, 0520959892
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5876030 bytes)
Series
Sport in world history 3
Pages
illustrations\295
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Skis and skiing;Skis and skiing--Alps--History;Ski

Description

'Skiing into Modernity' argues that from the moment that skiers took to the Alps of central Europe, around 1880, the interaction between skiers and the Alps proved transformative: the Alps modernized skiing, and skiing modernized the Alps. The unique terrain of the Alps demanded that skiers alter their equipment and their practice of the sport. In the process, skiers elaborated an ideology called 'Alpine modernism' that synthesized the Romantic devotion to nature with the modernist celebration of speed, technology, and spectacle. As a result, Alpine skiing was uniquely attuned to the 20th-century age of mass culture, and the sport of skiing both formed and reflected that era's democratization, commercialization, and obsession with leisure.

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