Dangerous amusements
Dangerous amusements

Author: Laura Harrison

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2022-06-14

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1526147866

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In neighbourhoods and public spaces across Britain, young working people walked out together, congregated in the streets, and paraded up and down on the ‘monkey parades’. The beginnings of a distinct youth culture can be traced to the late nineteenth century, and the street and neighbourhood provided its forum. Dangerous amusements explores these sites of leisure and courtship, examining how young working-class men and women engaged with their environment. Drawing on an extensive range of sources, from newspapers and institutional records to oral histories and autobiography, this book traces the movements of young people across space. Exploring the relationship between the leisure lives of the young working class and urban space, this book offers a sensitive reappraisal of working-class youth and will be essential reading for historians of modern Britain.

The Best American History Essays 2006
The Best American History Essays 2006

Author: Organization of American Historians

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-09-23

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 113706580X

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Ten of the best articles in American history published in 2006 selected from over 300 learned and popular journals. Topics range from the general to the specific and cover all aspects of American history, from the early days of the republic through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These are the questions that today's historians are asking.

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy
Sport, Ethics and Philosophy

Author: Mike McNamee

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-19

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1351585630

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This book represents a bold statement concerning the excitement and energy of the field of sports ethics and philosophy in contemporary terms. It is comprised of a collection of commissioned essays from the leading international scholars in the field to celebrate the ten year editorship of Mike McNamee for the journal: Sport, Ethics and Philosophy. The collection includes essays familiar sport philosophers on work about the nature and nuances of sports and games playing, winning and losing, role models and strategic fouling. It also celebrates in phenomenological terms the complex and heterogeneous experience and values of sports in both phenomenological and analytic modes. Finally, it addresses the most serious threats to sport integrity and governance, in the shape of doping, and the unchecked power of sports institutions, and the charisma of sport that is at the mercy of commercialism. This book was originally published as a special issue of Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.

Selections by Frances La Sales
Selections by Frances La Sales

Author: Frances La Sales

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-02

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0984173188

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our actions, and frequent recourse to God by pious and confiding ejaculations and interior aspirations. ""An Introduction to the Devout Life"", a work intended to lead ""Philothea"", the soul living in the world, into the paths of devotion, that is to say, of true and solid piety. Every one should strive to become pious, and ""it is an error, it is even a heresy"", to hold that piety is incompatible with any state of life. In the first part the author helps the soul to free itself from all inclination to, or affection for, sin; in the second, he teaches it how to be united to God by prayer and the sacraments; in the third, he exercises it in the practice of virtue; in the fourth, he strengthens it against temptation; in the fifth, he teaches it how to form its resolutions and to persevere.

Introduction to the Devout Life
Introduction to the Devout Life

Author: Francis de Sales

Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor

Published: 2018-09-01

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1681922894

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A contemporary selection of Catholic classics, curated for the modern reader by Our Sunday Visitor in the spirit of our founder, Archbishop John Francis Noll.