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Peter H. Hansen

Publications

Entries in Reference Works

• “Founders of the Alpine Club (act. 1857-1863),” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edition, edited by Lawrence Goldman, Oxford: Oxford University Press, October 2007.  [Online (subscription required)]

• “Hillary, Edmund and Tenzing Norgay,” Berkshire Encyclopedia of Extreme Sports, ed. Douglas Booth and Holly Thorpe (Great Barrington: Berkshire Publishing, 2007), pp. 124-125.

• "Bruce, Charles Granville (1866-1939)," "Conway, (William) Martin, Baron Conway of Allington (1856-1937)," "Coolidge, William Augustus Brevoort (1850-1926)," "FitzGerald, Edward Arthur (1871-1931)," "Hargreaves, Alison Jane (1962-1995)," "Hinchliff, Thomas Woodbine (1825-1882)," "Jackson [née Sanderson], Margaret Anne (1843-1906)," "Le Blond [née Hawkins-Whitshed], Elizabeth Alice Frances (1860-1934)," "Mallory, George Herbert Leigh (1886-1924)," "Mason, Kenneth (1887-1976)," "Mummery, Albert Frederick (1855-1895)," "Noel, John Baptist Lucius (1890-1989)," "Pigeon, Anna (1832-1917)," "Pugh, (Lewis) Griffith Cresswell Evans (1909-1994)," "Richardson, (Sarah) Katharine [Katy] (1854-1927)," "Smith, Albert Richard (1816-1860)," "Stark, Dame Freya Madeline (1893?-1993)," "Straton, (Mary) Isabella Charlet- (1838-1918)," "Tenzing Norgay [known as Sherpa Tenzing] (1914-1986)," "Weston, Walter (1860-1940)," "Whymper, Edward (1840-1911)," "Wills, Sir Alfred (1828-1912)," and "Young, Geoffrey Winthrop (1876-1958)," in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed., H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).

• “Mountaineering,” in Twentieth-Century Britain: an Encyclopedia, F.M. Leventhal, ed., (New York: Garland, 1995), pp. 536-7. 

Peer-Reviewed (Refereed) Journal Articles

• “Why Is There No Subaltern Studies for Tibet?” Tibet Journal 28:4 (Winter 2003), 7-22. 

• "Ornamentalism and Orientalism: Virtual Empires and the Politics of Knowledge," Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 3:1 (April 2002). [Online (subscription required)]

• "Confetti of Empire: the Conquest of Everest in Nepal, India, Britain and New Zealand," Comparative Studies in Society and History (April 2000): 307-332. [Online (subscription required)]

• "Debate: Tenzing's Two Wrist-Watches: the Conquest of Everest and Late Imperial Culture, 1921-1953: Comment," Past and Present 157 (Nov. 1997): 159-177. [Online (subscription required)]

• “The Dancing Lamas of Everest: Cinema, Orientalism, and Anglo-Tibetan Relations in the 1920s,” American Historical Review 101 (June 1996): 712-747.  [Online (subscription required)]

• “Vertical Boundaries, National Identities: Victorian Mountaineering on the Frontiers of Europe and the Empire, c. 1868-1914,” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 24 (Jan. 1996): 48-71.

• “Albert Smith, l'Alpine Club, et l'invention de l'alpinisme au milieu de l'ère victorienne,” STAPS: Revue internationale des sciences du sport et de l’éducation physique vol. 21, n. 51 (Hiver 2000): 7-28. 

• “Albert Smith, the Alpine Club, and the Invention of Mountaineering in Mid-Victorian Britain,” Journal of British Studies 34 (July 1995):  300-24. Translated and reprinted, above.  [Online (subscription required)]

• “International Education and Sustainable Development:  An American Experience in Bangkok, Venice, and Guayaquil,” The Environmentalist 15, 4 (1995):  252-256. 

Review Papers

• Review of Julie G. Marshall, Britain and Tibet, 1765-1947: a select bibliography of British relations with Tibet and the Himalayan states including Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan, revised and updated to 2003 (New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005), in Himalaya (2007).

• Review of Ian J. Barrow, Making History, Drawing Territory: British Mapping in India, c. 1756-1905 (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003), in Journal of British Studies 45 (January 2006): 184-6. 

• Review of Nigel J. Morgan and Annette Pritchard, Power, Politics and the Seaside: The Development of Devon’s Resorts in the Twentieth Century. (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1999), in International Labor and Working-Class History 64 (October 2003): 184-7.

• Review of David Matless, Landscape and Englishness (London: Reaktion, 1998), in Journal of Historical Geography 27 (April 2001): 293-5. 

• Review of Alfred J. Andrea, and James H. Overfield, eds., The Human Record: Sources of Global History 2 vols., third edition, (Houghton Mifflin, 1998), in World History Bulletin 16:1 (Spring 2000): 33-4. 

• Review of Morag Bell, et al., eds., Geography and Imperialism, 1820-1940 (Manchester, 1995), in Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 24 (Sept. 1996):  474-75.

Working Papers

• “Working Paper: General Education and the WPI Plan,” 2005.

Book Chapters

• “The Dancing Lamas of Everest: Cinema, Orientalism, and Anglo-Tibetan Relations in the 1920s,” in Alex McKay, ed., The History of Tibet, vol. 3, (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003), pp. 375-404.

• “Georges Mallory et la masculinité,” in Deux siècles d'alpinismes européens, origines et mutations des activités de grimpe, ed. Jacques Defrance and Olivier Hoibian (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2002), pp. 135-46.

• “Coronation Everest: Empire and Commonwealth in the ‘Second Elizabethan Age’,” in British Culture and Imperial Decline, ed. Stuart Ward, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001), pp. 57-72.

• “Tibetan Horizon: Tibet and Film in the Early Twentieth Century,” in Imagining Tibet: Realities, Projections and Fantasies, ed. Heinz Räther and Thierry Dodin, (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2001), pp. 91-110.

• “Modern Mountains: the Performative Consciousness of Modernity in Britain, 1870-1940,” in Meanings of Modernity: Britain in the Age of Imperialism and World Wars, ed. Martin J. Daunton and Bernhard Rieger, (Oxford: Berg, 2001), pp. 185-202. 

• “Partners:  Guides and Sherpas in the Alps and Himalayas, 1850s-1950s,” in Voyages and Visions: Towards a Cultural History of Travel ed. Jas Elsner and Joan-Pau Rubiés, (London: Reaktion, 1999), pp. 210-231.  

• “Der tibetische Horizont.  Tibet im Kino des Frühen 20. Jahrhunderts,” in Mythos Tibet: Wahrnehmungen, Projektionen, Phantasien, ed. Thierry Dodin and Heinz Räther, (Köln: DuMont, 1997), pp. 87-103.  

Presentations

Conference Presentations

• “Exploration, Travel, and the Making of Place,” North American Conference on British Studies, San Francisco, November 2007.

• “Mountains: Local Perspectives,” Symposium on the Alps: Perspectives on a Climber's World, Bolzano, Italy, June 2007.

• “On the Edge of a Cliff: Mont Blanc and the French Revolution,” American Society for Environmental History, Baton Rouge, March 2007.

• “Roundtable: Unstable Spaces and Conceptual Borderlands: Envisioning (Post-)Colonial Futures after the First World War,” American Historical Association Panel, Atlanta, January 2007.

• “Imagining the Past, 1780-1870,” North American Conference on British Studies, Boston, November, 2006.

Other

Other Publications or Works

• “Interdisciplinary Student Projects in Thailand,” Tai Culture: International Review on Tai Cultural Studies 7:1 (June 2002): 176-77. 

• “Unofficial Notes on the Gates Cambridge Scholarship,” National Association of Fellowship Advisors: The NAFA  Newsletter (March 2002). [View Online]

• “Mallory et la masculinité,” Cimes, L’Everest dans tous ses états, Groupe de Haute Montagne Annales 2002, (2002): 173-6.

• Editor, “NACBS Forum:  The Making of the Working British Historian,” 2000 [View Online]

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