A Sporting Pilgrimage
Author : Caspar Whitney
Publisher : New York, Harper & brothers
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 21,1 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Athletics
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Author : Caspar Whitney
Publisher : New York, Harper & brothers
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 21,1 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Athletics
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Author : Avril Maddrell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 12,14 MB
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317060318
This collection draws on the Mobilities approach to look afresh at notions of the sacred where they intersect with people, objects and other things on the move. Consideration of a wide range of spiritual meanings and practices also sheds light on the motivations and experiences associated with particular mobilities. Drawing on rich, situated case studies, this multi-disciplinary collection discusses what mobility in the social sciences, arts and humanities can tell us about movements and journeys prompted by religious, more broadly ’spiritual’ and 'secular-sacred' practices and priorities. Problematizing the fixity of sacred places and times as territorially and temporally bounded entities that exist in opposition to ’profane’ everyday life, this collection looks at the intersection between the embodied-emotional-spiritual experience of places, travel, belief-practices and communities. It is this geographically-informed perspective on the interleaving of religious/ spiritual/ secular notions of the sacred with the material and more-than-representational attributes of associated mobilities and related practices which constitutes this volume’s original contribution to the field.
Author : Library Company of Philadelphia
Publisher :
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 27,7 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Classified catalogs
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Page : 434 pages
File Size : 36,6 MB
Release : 1894
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Author : New Haven Free Public Library
Publisher :
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 10,80 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
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Author : Francis Fisher Browne
Publisher :
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 47,85 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Books
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Author : Edwin Lord Weeks
Publisher :
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,87 MB
Release : 1896
Category : India
ISBN :
A travel memoir in diary-style. The author explains in the preface that he did not intend to take the route described here, but civil war in Afghanistan and a cholera epidemic forced him to travel through Kurdistan and Persia. Some hand-drawn illustrations provide images of the author's journey. Special chapters at the end include the author's commentary on Hinduism and Islam in India, Indian art, and impressions of everyday life for English people in India.
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Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 13,27 MB
Release : 1895
Category : American literature
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Author : Allison Lockwood
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 15,36 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 9780838622728
The author has analyzed, sorted, and organized material from almost 500 accounts of travels in Great Britain into a veritable cavalcade of social history. This is a book filled with life and vitality, written with a light touch and always with an eye to social comedy. It presents a true and realistic picture of these people and their periods.
Author : Dave Revsine
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1493012916
It’s America’s most popular sport, played by thousands, watched by millions, and generating billions in revenues every year. It’s also America’s most controversial sport, haunted by the specter of life-threatening injuries and plagued by scandal, even among its most venerable personalities and institutions. At the college level, we often tie football’s tales of corruption and greed to its current popularity and revenue potential, and we have vague notions of a halcyon time--before the new College Football Playoff, power conferences, and huge TV contracts. Perhaps we conjure images of young Ivy Leaguers playing a gentleman’s game, exemplifying the collegial in collegiate. What we don’t imagine is a game described in 1905, not today, as "a social obsession--this boy-killing, man-mutillating, education-prostituting, gladiatorial sport." In The Opening Kickoff, Dave Revsine tells the riveting story of the formative period of American football (1890-1915). It was a time that saw the game’s meteoric rise, fueled by overflow crowds, breathless newspaper coverage and newfound superstars—including one of the most thrilling and mysterious the sport has ever seen. But it was also a period racked by controversy in academics, recruiting, and physical brutality that, in combination, threatened football’s very existence. A vivid storyteller, Revsine brings it all to life in a captivating narrative.