... explores the dynamics of pre-industrial economies in the Alps, examines probate inventories and dowry settlements, and family and business archives of the rural families in Savoy and Dauphiné. First, it examines dowries and probate inventories as indicators of increasing wealth, and then describes the role...

...This chapter introduces the Carpathian Mountains which are Central and Eastern Europe's most prominent physical feature. It mentions how most studies tend to overlook the Carpathian Mountains compared to the Alps and Pyrenees. The Poles discovered these mountain ranges and turned them...

... scotomization climate change Alps risk perception landslide communities The mountains and the Alps are becoming a key observation point, able to give voice to new interlocutors ( Dall’Ò, 2022 ) and for understanding the cultural and social impacts of climate change and current short and long-term...

... Directory Egypt French Revolution domestic reforms Ideologues Adams John Tracy Antoine Destutt de Alps Coalitions Desaix Louis Italy Marengo battle of Russia war Bavaria Belgium David Jacques Louis Genoa Germany Hannibal Kellermann François Étienne de Lombardy Moreau Jean Victor...

... coming from the Alps, the main European mountain ridge. Nonetheless, the variability connected to the exploitation of the principal European mountain sectors is taken into account as much as possible. The main topics addressed are: (a) the role of mountain regions within the general settlement systems...

...This chapter explores the two main subjects of the book–skiing and the Alps–before they came into contact with one another. It begins by tracing the history of the Alps before skiing, showing how industrialization and state centralization rendered Alpine communities peripheral and backward...

... their perceptions of the Alps. Alps Austria nature Romanticism skiing Tirol Walde Alfons atomization cities Luther Carl snow speed World War I cosmopolitanism Dolomites Friedrichs Nellie Italy Königsspitze Monte Zebrù National Socialism Ortler schuss ski lifts Sulden Alpinism kinaesthetics...

... to the sport’s expanded constituency and its visceral appeal to skiers and non-skiers alike, skiing became a vital component of the vibrant interwar mass culture. advertising Alps Austria Cervinia Dolomites France Grand Tours Italy kinaesthetics Lenhart Franz Matterhorn Mussolini Benito Switzerland...

... recast the Alps as a natural resource to be managed and exploited. The chapter begins by examining the development of lift infrastructure before discussing alterations to the landscape and attempts to manage and manipulate snow resources. The technological development of the Alps suited the needs of both...

...The epilogue concludes the book by examining debates about the meaning of Alpine modernism and the rapid modernization of the Alps in the twentieth century. It reiterates the tensions within the sport in the form of Alpine modernism, an ideology that always sought to strike an ideal balance between...

...The conclusion follows the developments in the Eastern Alps during and after the Second World War and discusses how mountaineering illustrated the dichotomy of individuality and collective identity that informed views of nature and nationhood in Germany and Austria. The Alps had become a repository...

... for Jewish immigrants and refugees that would take them out of Saint-Martin-Vésubie to Italy by crossing the Alps. This chapter looks at their exodus after September 8, 1943 and describes the experiences of Jews who survived the odyssey. Jews of Saint Martin Vésubie France Saint Martin Vésubie France...

...This chapter focuses on the myths and mysterious creatures of the Klamath Mountains. It describes a local legend about a turquoise dragon and an expedition to the Trinity Alps to find a giant dragon. The Klamaths are also the center of the Bigfoot myth, and reported sightings have increased from...

... of the Alps; the latter had merely produced a tilted surface of ice, down which the erratics could slide from Alps to Jura. Only after this had a warming climate melted the static ice-sheet and turned its remnants into slowly retreating valley glaciers. Agassiz integrated this “glacial theory” into his larger...

...This chapter describes how, succeeding Hasdrubal as leader in 221, Hannibal extended Carthaginian power to most of northern Spain. A clash with Saguntum, a small town under Rome's protection, led to war in 218 and his march from Spain across the Alps. With a heavily depleted army and despite most...

...The Missing Witnessis set in the Swiss alps and features a romance plot aborted by a jealous villain and saved by the servant Genevieve, the ‘missing witness’ of the title. It offers a wonderful example of an extended sensation scene involving not one, but two hand-to-hand fight...

... artefacts Kamminga Johan faunal remains human remains skeletal remains cultural knowledge edge ground axes stone axes deglaciation ethnography ethnohistory grindstones Australian Alps Bogong moth Holocene mountains spiritual landscapes The Great Dividing Range (the ‘Great Divide...

...This essay focuses on the TV animation Heidi, Girl of the Alps (1974). Made in Japan, it is the most famous international adaptation of the original novel Heidi by the Swiss writer Johanna Spyri. The novel has been translated into many languages and adapted...

... in good order into the Alps, laying waste to key industrial and military installations in the process. As for the Réduit itself, at least in Gartwright's opinion, Swiss defences were ‘practically impregnable’ since ‘they were too high to be reached by flame-throwers … too low down to be attacked...

... four weeks. During that time the weather was perfect almost every day. Alps Benioff zone Comores Islands Dead Sea fault Earthquakes Gangchempo Hawaii India-Asia collision Kangchenjunga We find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end. James Hutton, 1788, pondering on the geological...