Imperial ascent : mountaineering, masculinity, and empire /
Annotation Study of mountaineering literature and how it is tied to imperial ideology and dominant notions of masculinity.
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| Language: | English |
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Boulder, Colo. :
University Press of Colorado,
2003
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Mountaineering and the Imagining of Imperial Masculinity
- 1: Frederick Cook, To the Top of the Continent (1908), the Alaskan "Wilderness," and the Regeneration of Progressive-Era Masc
- 2: Belmore Browne's The Conquest of Mount McKinley (1913), Alaska Natives, and White Masculine Anxieties on the Alaskan Front
- 3: Save Whom From Destruction? Alaska Natives, Frontier Mythology, and the Regeneration of the White Conscience in Hudson Stu.
- 4: Resurrecting Heroes: Sir Francis Younghusband's The Epic of Mount Everest (1926) and Post-Great War Britain
- 5: Sir John Hunt's The Ascent of Everest (1953) and Nostalgia for the British Empire
- 6: No Longer Sahibs: Tenzing Norgay and the 1953 British Expedition to Mount Everest
- 7: Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air (1997), Postmodern Adventurous Masculinity, and Imperialism
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index.
