Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in fin-de-siècle England and Germany

Benjamin M. Anderson is a multi-award winning Lecturer in Twentieth Century European History at Keele University, UK, as well as a BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinker 2018 who has published and broadcast widely on environmental histories of leisure. He is also an enthusiastic, if recently-lapsed mountaineer and climber.

“Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in fin-de-siècle England and Germany does much more than offer a detailed history of the development of mountaineering and rambling in Europe in the decades preceding the First World War, though it does this extremely well.” (Simon Bainbridge, Victorian Studies, Vol. 65 (2), 2023)

• 1. Introduction: Being Modern at the fin-de-siècle.- 2. Mountaineers in the City.- 3. Mountaineers against the City.- 4. Constructing the Alps.- 5. Time.- 6. Risk and Danger.- 7. Beyond the Nation.- 8. The Indoors in the Outdoors.- 9. Conclusion.-