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The Czech/German/Polish Giant Mountains: The Rise of Modern Tourism amidst Contested Ethnic Coexistence
The Czech/German/Polish Giant Mountains: The Rise of Modern Tourism amidst Contested Ethnic Coexistence

Author(s): Kateřina Vnoučková
Subject(s): History, Cultural history, Human Geography, Environmental Geography, Comparative history, Ethnohistory, Local History / Microhistory, Social history, 19th Century, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Book-Review, Tourism
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro soudobé dějiny
Keywords: Giant Mountains/Krkonoše/Riesengebirge; Czech lands;Czechoslovakia; Germany; Poland; tourism; nationalism;modernity; borderlands; mountainassociations; Czech-German relations; environmental protection

Summary/Abstract: HOLUBEC, Stanislav: Krkonoše tří národů: Zrod a proměny moderní turistiky v letech 1860–1960. Praha, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny – Historický ústav AV ČR 2024, v. v. i., 525 pages, ISBN 978-80-7422-949-7.

  • Issue Year: XXXII/2025
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 937-942
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English
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