Walking and Environmentalism in the Career of James Bryce: Mountaineer, Scholar, Statesman, 1838-1922

Paul Readman

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-48498-7_12

Walking and Environmentalism in the Career of James Bryce: Mountaineer, Scholar, Statesman, 1838-1922

Paul Readman

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Politician, diplomat, jurist, political scientist and historian, James Bryce was a man of many parts. Bryce was a great mountain walker and climber, and his love of both activities was closely related to his interest in the natural world. Readman shows how Bryce’s notable experiences of mountain landscape combined with a particular environmentalist sensibility and political liberalism to shape his pioneering ideas about landscape preservation. Readman also reveals the importance of Bryce’s mountaineering to his personal identity and to his practice as an historian. Bryce’s ideas about history were influenced by an environmentalist perspective on the world, gained through on-foot experience of it.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Walking Histories, 1800-1914
Editors	Chad Bryant, Arthur Burns, Paul Readman
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	287-318
Number of pages	32
ISBN (Print)	9781137484987, 9781137484970
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48498-7_12
Publication status	Published - 17 Apr 2016

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