Walking Histories, 1800-1914

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).

• 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.-

“What is striking and perhaps novel here is the range of perspectives that the authors collectively bring to the subject. … Here are a series of highly intelligent and rigorously researched essays whose variety allows us to look beyond the classic ‘Romantic walker’ and urban flaneur … and is surely now a must-read for anyone interested in the history of walking.” (Peter Borsay, Social History, Vol. 42 (3), July, 2017)“This collection has a truly global reach. .. no one could read this rich and resonant collection without learning something … .” (William Whyte, English Historical Review EHR, Vol. 132 (556), June, 2017)