This class engages the history of mountaineering to think transnationally about major historiographical themes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: modernity, nature, empire, class, nationalism, science, leisure, gender, and climate change. We will leave the beaten track of history and follow Simon Schama “into wild woods, upstream along the rivers of life and death, up into the high mountains, not as a cultural camper but because so many of our modern concerns [...] have invoked topography to give their ruling ideas a natural form.”1 As an upper-level history research seminar, the...
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