Skiing into Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Skiing into Modernity write by Andrew Denning. This book was released on 2014-11-26. Skiing into Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Skiing into Modernity is the story of how skiing moved from Europe’s Scandinavian periphery to the mountains of central Europe, where it came to define the modern Alps and set the standard for skiing across the world. Denning offers a fresh, sophisticated, and engaging cultural and environmental history of skiing that alters our understanding of the sport and reveals how leisure practices evolve in unison with our changing relationship to nature. Denning probes the modernist self-definition of Alpine skiers and the sport’s historical appeal for individuals who sought to escape city strictures while achieving mastery of mountain environments through technology and speed—two central features distinguishing early twentieth-century cultures. Skiing into Modernity surpasses existing literature on the history of skiing to explore intersections between work, tourism, leisure, development, environmental destruction, urbanism, and more.
Leisure Cultures and the Making of Modern Ski Resorts
Leisure Cultures and the Making of Modern Ski Resorts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Leisure Cultures and the Making of Modern Ski Resorts write by Philipp Strobl. This book was released on 2018-09-11. Leisure Cultures and the Making of Modern Ski Resorts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edited volume offers an historical perspective on the creation of a global mass industry around skiing. By focusing on the ski resort as loci par excellence for global exchange, the contributors consider the development of skiing around the world during the crucial post-war years. With its global lens, Leisure Cultures and the Making of Modern Ski Resorts highlights both commonalities and differences between countries. Experts across various fields of research cover developments across the ski-able world, from Europe, Asia and America to Australia. Attention to media and material cultures reveals an insight into global fashions, consumption and ski cultures, and the impact of mainstream media in the 1960s and 1970s. This global and interdisciplinary approach will appeal to history, sociology, cultural and media research scholars interested in a cultural history of skiing, as well as those with more broad interests in globalization, consumption research, and knowledge transfer.
The Story of Modern Skiing
The Story of Modern Skiing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Story of Modern Skiing write by John Fry. This book was released on 2017-03-14. The Story of Modern Skiing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the definitive history of the sport that has exhilarated and infatuated about 30 million Americans and Canadians over the course of the last fifty years. Consummate insider John Fry chronicles the rise of a ski culture and every aspect of the sport's development, including the emergence of the mega-resort and advances in equipment, technique, instruction, and competition. The Story of Modern Skiing is laced with revelations from the author's personal relationships with skiing greats such as triple Olympic gold medalists Toni Sailer and Jean-Claude Killy, double gold medalist and environmental champion Andrea Mead Lawrence, first women's World Cup winner Nancy Greene, World Alpine champion Billy Kidd, Sarajevo gold and silver medalists Phil and Steve Mahre, and industry pioneers such as Vail founder Pete Seibert, metal ski designer Howard Head, and plastic boot inventor Bob Lange. Fry writes authoritatively of alpine skiing in North America and Europe, of Nordic skiing, and of newer variations in the sport: freestyle skiing, snowboarding, and extreme skiing. He looks closely at skiing's relationship to the environment, its portrayal in the media, and its response to social and economic change. Maps locating major resorts, records of ski champions, and a timeline, bibliography, glossary, and index of names and places make this the definitive work on modern skiing. Skiers of all ages and abilities will revel in this lively tale of their sport's heritage.
Schuss!
Schuss! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Schuss! write by Andrew Stephan Denning. This book was released on 2011. Schuss! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This dissertation studies the historical relationship between skiers and the Alps from the introduction of the sport to Central Europe in the 1880s through 1990. I employ the tools of cultural and environmental history to examine the relationship between skiing, the Alps, and modernity to show how leisure practices such as sport and tourism played a vital role in the definition of modern European culture and spurred modernization in the Alps. I accomplish this in four chronologically overlapping, thematic chapters, treating (1) the introduction of skiing into the Alps during the fin de siècle and its effects, (2) the relationship between Alpine skiing and cultural modernism from 1900 to 1940, (3) the effects of the culture of modern sport on both Alpine skiing and the Alps from 1920 to 1980, and (4) the development of Alpine skiing as the foundation of the winter tourism industry in the Alps from 1930 to 1990. To execute this study, I examine a wide array of primary sources from Austria, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and Switzerland, including archival evidence, unpublished papers, newspapers, journals, cultural productions (such as film, art, and novels), and ephemera. I argue that whereas Europeans had long understood both skiing and the Alps as backwards and peripheral, together they became central to the development of European modernity in the twentieth century. Alpine skiers were united by a transnational culture based in common experiences and their shared relationship with the Alpine landscape. The growing popularity of Alpine skiing, which I trace to the sport's unique cultural appeal, led Alpine skiers and their representatives to alter the Alpine landscape to suit the practice of the sport, thus transforming their understanding of the Alps.
White Planet
White Planet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook White Planet write by Leslie Anthony. This book was released on 2010-09-27. White Planet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Writer and adventurer Leslie Anthony has spent his life on two planks, racing down hills, searching for the next perfect ride. His real baptism, however, began in the early nineties when Alaska emerged as the ski world’s Next Big Thing. Steep faces and vast tracks of powder snow, were captured on film and beamed to audiences around the world. The result was a freeskiing revolution. With insight and humor, White Planet, traces an arc through the new ski culture, in a rock ‘n’ roll adventure that follows a diaspora to far-flung corners of the globe. Along the way, Anthony introduces many of the daredevils, visionaries and entrepreneurs who are bringing the sport to such unexpected places as Mexico, China, Lebanon and India.
