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Author: Freya Honigmann
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-01-10
Total Pages: 74
ISBN-13: 3711500110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a story of two boys, who traveled back to 1900 by accident. While one wants to go back to 2023, the other one is in a conflict with himself, because he found a reason to stay in 1900.
Author: Finch Mason
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2023-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781021081308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplore the world of horse racing and the gentlemen riders who have left their mark on the sport. From past to present, this book covers the history and personality of some of the sport's most notable riders. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Mike Huggins
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780719065293
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a detailed consideration of the history of racing in British culture and society and an exploration of the cultural world of racing during the inter-war years. the supposedly respectable middle classes, and gave some working-class groups hope and consolation during economically difficult times. Regular attendance and increased spending on betting were found across class and generation and women too were keen participants. Enjoyed by the Royal Family and controlled by the Jockey Club and National Hunt Committee, racing's visible emphasis on rank and status helped defend hierarchy and gentlemanly amateurism and provided support for more conservative British attitudes. The mass media provided a cumulative cultural validation of racing, helping define national and regional identity and encouraging the affluent consumption of sporting experience and frank enjoyment of betting. exploration of the internal culture of racing itself: the racecourse and course life, trainers and jockeys, owners and breeders. be of value for undergraduate courses on the history of modern British society, sport and cultural studies and should be welcomed by racing enthusiasts everywhere.
Author: Floris Heyne
Publisher: Te Neues Publishing Company
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783961711321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver 225 colour and black and white photographs from the NASA archives celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first manned moon landing. These pictures, all taken by the Apollo astronauts, create a vivid documentary of one of the most seminal events of the 20th Century. The accompanying text is filled with little--known insider facts and fascinating insights into the Apollo missions.
Author: Mike Huggins
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-03
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 113526418X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2001 North American Society for Sports History Book of the Year This volume studies the formative period of racing between 1790 and 1914. This was a time when, despite the opposition of a respectable minority, attendance at horse races, betting on horses, or reading about racing increasingly became central leisure activities of much of British society.
Author: Sean O'Connell
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780719055065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe car was first introduced into British society over one hundred years ago. Sean O'Connell's study of the social impact of the car offers a radical new way of looking at the history of motoring.
Author: Paul Maloney
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2003-09-13
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780719061479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile London dominated the wider British music hall in the 19th century, Glasgow, the Second City of the Empire, was the center of a vigorous Scottish performing culture, one developed in a Presbyterian society with a very different experience of industrial urbanization. It drew heavily on older fairground and traditional forms in developing its own brand of this new urban entertainment. The book explores all aspects of the Scottish music hall industry, from the lives and professional culture of performers and impresarios to the place of music hall in Scottish life. It also explores issues of national identity, both in terms of Scottish audiences' responses to the promotion of imperial themes in songs and performing material, and in the version of Scottish identity projected by Lauder and other kilted acts at home and abroad in America, Canada, Australia and throughout the English-speaking world.
Author: Ian Carter
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780719059667
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 19th-century steam railway epitomized modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of the train. Why, for example, did Britain possess no great railway novel? He compares fiction and images by canonical British figures (Turner, Dickens, Arnold Bennett) with selected French and Russian competitors: Tolstoy, Zola, Monet, Manet. He argues that while high cultural work on the British steam railway is thin, British popular culture did not ignore it. Detailed discussions of comic fiction, crime fiction, and cartoons reveal a popular fascination with railways tumbling from vast (and hitherto unexplored) stores of critically overlooked genres.
