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The Draw of the Alps
The Alps have exerted a hold over the German cultural imagination throughout the modern period, enthralling writers, artists, philosophers, scientists, and tourists alike. The Draw of the Alps interrogates the dynamics of this fascination. Though philosophical and aesthetic responses to Alpine space have shifted over time, the Alps continue to captivate at an individual and collective level. This has resulted in myriad cultural engagements with Alpine space, as this interdisciplinary volume attests. Literature, photography, and philosophy continue to engage with the Alps as a place in which humans pursue their cognitive and aesthetic limits. At the same time, individuals engage physically wi...
Creating Wilderness
The history of the Swiss National Park, from its creation in the years before the Great War to the present, is told for the first time in this book. Unlike Yellowstone Park, which embodied close cooperation between state-supported conservation and public recreation, the Swiss park put in place an extraordinarily strong conservation program derived from a close alliance between the state and scientific research. This deliberate reinterpretation of the American idea of the national park was innovative and radical, but its consequences were not limited to Switzerland. The Swiss park became the prime example of a “scientific national park,” thereby influencing the course of national parks worldwide.
Alpenlandschaften
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Paysages des Alpes
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Wildnis schaffen
Als schweizerische Naturforscher Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts einen Nationalpark gründeten, hatten sie eine Vision: Abgeschottet von menschlichem Einfluss sollte die Natur ihre eigene Urnatur wiederherstellen. Diese Absicht unterschied sich radikal von der US-amerikanischen Nationalparkidee. Nicht der Erholung, sondern primär der Forschung hatte ein Nationalpark zu dienen. Das Konzept war innovativ und beeinflusste die Gestaltung von Schutzgebieten weit über die Schweiz hinaus. "Wildnis schaffen" ist die erste umfassende Darstellung der Geschichte des Schweizerischen Nationalparks, von den Gründerjahren vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg bis ins 21. Jahrhundert.
