Skiing into Modernity A Cultural and Environmental History

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"[An] intellectual study."—S. A. Riess CHOICE

"A great case study . . . Skiing into Modernity is a great read."—Consumption Markets and Culture

"Denning skillfully combines sport, cultural, and environmental histories... Skiing into Modernity is an excellent book."—Canadian Journal of History

"Andrew Dennin offers an exceptionlly thoughtful analysis of how skiing took hold in European mountains and minds, also providing much food for thought for historians of skiing, leisure, and environment in North America."—Pacific Historical Review

"Denning offers a thoughtful and innovative study that should prove useful to scholars of environment, leisure, Europe, and skiing."—H-Net

“Skiing into Modernity offers historians a brand-new vision of the Alps and a remarkably fresh and nuanced history of skiing. But, perhaps most important, it reveals just how much our physical landscapes and leisure practices have emerged in concert with changing views about how individuals should relate to nature.”—Annie Gilbert Coleman, author of Ski Style: Sport and Culture in the Rockies

“An engagingly written, beautifully illustrated, fascinating transnational history of tourism, economic development, environmentalism, and sport in the Alps. Taking a geographical space rather than a nation-state in which to root his focus on 'Alpine modernism,' Denning analyzes the evolving assumptions of French, German, Austrian, Italian, and Swiss ski associations, ski publications, and other advocates of skiing since the late nineteenth century. A work of serious scholarship on an admittedly fun topic, Skiing into Modernity will interest general readers, students, and historians of Europe.”—Stephen L. Harp, author of Marketing Michelin: Advertising and Cultural Identity in Twentieth-Century France and Au Naturel: Naturism, Nudism, and Tourism in Twentieth-Century France

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