Walking histories, 1800-1914
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Walking histories, 1800-1914
Palgrave Macmillan, c2016
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Few historians have written about walking, despite its obvious centrality to the human condition. Focusing on the period 1800-1914, this book examines the practices and meanings of walking in the context of transformative modernity. It boldly suggests that once historians place walking at the heart of their analyses, exciting new perspectives on themes central to the 'long nineteenth century' emerge. Walking Histories, 1800-1914 adopts a global perspective, including contributions from specialists in the history and culture of Great Britain, North America, Australia, Russia, East-Central Europe, and South Asia. Critically engaging with recent research, the contributions within offer fresh insights for academic experts, while remaining accessible to student readers. This book will be essential reading for those interested in movement, travel, leisure, urban history, and environmental history.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Modern Walks
- Chad Bryant, Arthur Burns and Paul Readman.- PART I: WALKING, SPACE, AND BOUNDARIES.- 1. Walking the Boundaries between Modernity and Tradition: Perambulation and 'Beating the Bounds' in Nineteenth-century Hungary
- Robert Gray.- 2. Strolling the Romantic City: Gardens, Panoramas and Middle-Class Elites in Early Nineteenth-century Prague
- Chad Bryant.- 3. Rites of Passage: Youthful Walking and the Rhythms of the City, c.1850-1914
- Simon Sleight.- PART II: THE OPTICS OF WALKING.- 4. Walking as Labour in Henry Mayhew's London
- Elizabeth Coggin Womack.- 5. 'Efficiency on Foot'? The Well-run Estate of Nineteenth-century Britain
- Julie Hipperson.- PART III: WEEKEND WALKING, OR NOT.- 6. Accidents Will Happen: Risk, Climbing and Pedestrianism in the 'Golden Age' of English Mountaineering 1850-1865
- Arthur Burns.- 7. 'A Good Walk Spoiled?' Golfers and the Experience of Landscape during the Late Nineteenth Century
- Clare V. J. Griffiths.- 8. Urban Space and Travel on the Jewish Sabbath in the Nineteenth Century
- Barry Stiefel.- PART IV: WALKING, CONTEMPLATION, AND THE SELF.- 9. The Saints Who Walk: Walking, Piety and Technologies of Circulation in Modern South Asia
- Iqbal Sevea.- 10. Walking in Andrei Bely's Petersburg: Active Perception and Embodied Experience of the City
- Angeliki Sioli.- 11. Walking and Environmentalism in the Career of James Bryce: Mountaineer, Scholar, Statesman, 1838-1922
- Paul Readman.-
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