Vertical Margins Mountaineering And The Landscapes Of Neoimperialism Reuben J Ellis by Reuben J. Ellis 9780299170004, 9780299170042, 0299170004, 0299170047 instant download after payment.

Reuben Ellis shows that mountain exploration reached far beyond the motivations of adrenaline-driven adventurers to an aggressive ideology of power and expansion that fed the "New Imperialism"--the end of the era of European empire-building and the beginnings of American dominance in world affairs. With so many mountains at the margins of European and American territorial and economic domains, mountaineering often overlapped with the motivations of empire; the earth's mountains came to be regarded as frontiers open to the full range of political, economic, and personal concerns that drove geographical exploration.