The Carpathians : : Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine / / Patrice M. Dabrowski.
In The Carpathians, Patrice M. Dabrowski narrates how three highland ranges of the mountain system found in present-day Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine were discovered for a broader regional public. This is a story of how the Tatras, Eastern Carpathians, and Bieszczady Mountains went from being terra...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 13 b&w halftones, 5 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I: The Tatra Mountains of Galicia
- 1. Where Freedom Awaits
- 2. On the Mountain Pass
- 3. Transforming the Tatras
- 4. Turn-of-the-Century Innovations
- Part II: The Eastern Carpathians of Galicia and the Second Polish Republic
- 5. The Hutsul Region and the Hand of Civilization
- 6. The Advent of the Railway
- 7. A New Alpine Club
- 8. A Poland of Regions
- Part III: The Bieszczady Mountains of the Polish People’s Republic
- 9. A Novel Wilderness
- 10. Tourism for the Masses
- 11. Battling for the Soul of the Bieszczady
- 12. Power, Ecology, and the Public Sphere
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index