Catherine Tatiana Dunlop: The Mistral

Cover: 9780226827544 | The Mistral | A Windswept History of Modern France | Dunlop | Buch

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"Every year, most forcefully when winter turns to spring, the chilly mistral wind blows through the Rhãone Valley of southern France over the northwest coast of the Gulf of Lion into the Mediterranean. Sometimes the winds are brisk and sustained, other times they are unleashed in violent gusts. Trees are knocked over or permanently bent to the east in the path of the wind, trains are swept off their tracks, crops are destroyed. Afterward the sky is clear and blue, as Provence is often pictured. The legendary wind is central to the area's regional identity, inspiring artists and writers near and far for centuries. This force of nature is the focus of Dunlop's Windswept, a beautifully written examination of the power of the mistral wind, and in particular the ways it has challenged central tenets of 19th century European society: order, mastery, predictability. As Dunlop shows, while the modernizing state sought liberation from environmental realities through scientific advances, land modification, and other technological solutions, the wind blew on, literally crushing attempts at control, and becoming increasingly integral to regional feelings of place and community"--

Über den Autor

Catherine Tatiana Dunlop is associate professor of modern European history at Montana State University, Bozeman. She is the author of Cartophilia, published by the University of Chicago Press, and serves as an associate editor for the journal Environmental History.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Geowissenschaften , Importe
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9780226827544
ISBN-10:	0226827542
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Dunlop, Catherine Tatiana
Hersteller:	University of Chicago Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	231 x 155 x 23 mm
Von/Mit:	Catherine Tatiana Dunlop
Erscheinungsdatum:	22.10.2024
Gewicht:	0,499 kg

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