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Walking Histories, 1800-1914


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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.-

About the Author: Chad Bryant is Associate Professor in Central and Eastern European History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. He is author of Prague in Black: Czech Nationalism and Nazi Rule (2007) and is co-editor, with Cynthia Radding and Paul Readman, of Borderlands in World History, 1700-1914 (2014).
Arthur Burns is Professor of Modern British History at King's College London, UK. His books include Rethinking the Age of Reform: Britain 1780-1850 (2003), co-edited with Joanna Innes, and St Paul's: The Cathedral Church of London 604-2004 (2004), co-edited with Derek Keene and Andrew Saint.
Paul Readman is Professor of Modern British History at King's College London, UK. His publications include Land and Nation in England: Patriotism, National Identity and the Politics of Land 1880-1914 (2008), and as co-editor with Chad Bryant and Cynthia Radding, Borderlands in World History, 1700-1914 (2014).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781137484970
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Depth: 25
  • Height: 221 mm
  • No of Pages: 332
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1137484977
  • Publisher Date: 26 Apr 2016
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Edition: 1st ed. 2016
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 621 gr


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