Pyrenees in the Modern Era

Martyn Lyons is Emeritus Professor of History and European Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is the author of The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe (2012), Books: A Living History (2011) and Post-Revolutionary Europe, 1815-1856 (2006), among other works on revolutionary and Napoleonic France, and on the history of reading practices.

• List of IllustrationsList of Maps1. Introduction: The Pyrenean World2. Romancing the Stones? The Enlightenment Invention of the Pyrenees 3. Visions of the Picturesque: The Romantic Pyrenees 4. Others Among Others5. The Railway Age and the Coming of Mass Tourism, 1853-1914 6. The Heroic Pyrenees: The Challenge of the Peaks7. Making the Nation: Cyclists and Excursionists8. Peoples of the Frontier9. Dangerous Borderlands, 1936-194510. The Anthropological Gaze11. The Death of Cannelle and the Green Pyrenees12. The Pyrenees TodayBibliographyIndex

If [Lyons’] chapters offer a versatile, stand-alone quality, they also link together in a smooth narrative and consistent analytical framework. A resounding strength of this book is the breadth of sources that inform it … [An] elegant, sophisticated rendition of the Pyrenees’ modern cultural history.