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 tha
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CHAD BRYANT, ARTHUR BURNS & PAUL READMAN
Walking Histories, 1800–1914
Chad Bryant • Arthur Burns • Paul Readman Editors
Walking Histories, 1800–1914
Editors Chad Bryant University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Paul Readman Department of History King’s College London London, United Kingdom
Arthur Burns Department of History King’s College London London, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-48497-0 ISBN 978-1-137-48498-7 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-48498-7
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
It may sound too good to be true, but the idea for this book emerged while on a walk. Following a jumbled day full of teaching, emails, letters of recommendation, meetings and, finally, a public talk, we ambled onto Franklin Street, in Chapel Hill, toward a pub in nearby Carrboro. Our conversation turned to a number of ideas for future conferences—all unconvincing—before easing into our common love of walking, whether along the gentle mountain trails of North Carolina or across the eversurprising cityscape of London. Somewhere between Crook’s Corner and the Station Bar, our final destination, we struck upon the idea of holding a conference about the history of walking, remarking that the simple act of putting one foot in front of the other, while so central to human existence, has received scant attention from historians. A year later, together with Cynthia Radding, we organized a conference entitled ‘Modern Walks: Human Locomotion during the Long Nineteenth Century, 1800–1914’, which took place at Chapel
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