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Author Weltzien, O. Alan (Oliver Alan)

Title Exceptional mountains : a cultural history of the Pacific Northwest volcanoes / O. Alan Weltzien
Published ©20
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2016

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Contents 1. The Legacy of Exceptionalism -- 2. Standard Routes, Standard Highways -- 3. Cities and Their Volcanoes -- 4. Green Consumerism and the Volcanoes -- 5. Wilderness and Volcanoes -- 6. Volcanoes and Crowds -- Epilogue
Summary "Over the past 150 years, people have flocked to the Pacific Northwest in increasing numbers, in part due to the region's beauty and one of its most exceptional features: volcanoes. This segment of the Pacific Ring of Fire has shaped not only the physical landscape of the region but also the psychological landscape, and with it the narratives we compose about ourselves. Exceptional Mountains is a cultural history of the Northwest volcanoes and the environmental impact of outdoor recreation in this region. It probes the relationship between these volcanoes and regional identity, particularly in the era of mass mountaineering and population growth in the Northwest. O. Alan Weltzien demonstrates how mountaineering is but one conspicuous example of the outdoor recreation industry's unrestricted and problematic growth. He explores the implications of our assumptions that there are no limits to our outdoor recreation habits and that access to the highest mountains should include amenities for affluent consumers. Each chapter probes the mountain-based regional ethos and the concomitant sense of privilege and entitlement from different vantages to illuminate the consumerist mind-set as a reductive--and deeply problematic--version of experience and identity in and around some of the nation's most striking mountains"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 28, 2016)
Subject Volcanoes -- Social aspects -- Northwest, Pacific -- History
Mountains -- Social aspects -- Northwest, Pacific -- History
Regionalism -- Northwest, Pacific -- History
Outdoor recreation -- Environmental aspects -- Northwest, Pacific -- History
Mountaineering -- Environmental aspects -- Northwest, Pacific -- History
Consumers -- Northwest, Pacific -- Psychology -- History
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Northwest, Pacific -- History
Environmental policy -- Northwest, Pacific -- History
TRAVEL/United States/West/Pacific (AK, CA, HI, NV, OR, WA)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Pacific Northwest (OR, Wash.)
NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Mountains.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Mountaineering.
Consumers -- Psychology
Ecology
Environmental policy
Geography
Nature -- Effect of human beings on
Outdoor recreation -- Environmental aspects
Regionalism
Volcanoes -- Social aspects
SUBJECT Northwest, Pacific -- Geography
Northwest, Pacific -- Environmental conditions
Subject Pacific Northwest
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2015047730
ISBN 9780803290402
0803290403
9780803290426
080329042X
0803290411
9780803290419