Walking histories, 1800-1914 /
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...
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2016.
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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; Robert Gray
- 2. Strolling the Romantic City; Chad Bryant
- 3. Rites of Passage; 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; 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; Iqbal Sevea
- 10. Walking in Andrei Bely's Petersburg; Angeliki Sioli
- 11. Walking and Environmentalism in the Career of James Bryce; Paul Readman
