Culture Trails Series
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Author | : Dallen J. Timothy |
Publisher | : Channel View Publications |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1845414780 |
This book provides a comprehensive overview of trails and routes from a tourism and recreation perspective. This cutting-edge volume addresses conceptual and management issues systematically, examining supply, demand, development and impacts associated with trails and routes.
Author | : Robert A. Kaster |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2012-04-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226425711 |
Describes travel down the Appian Way while analyzing the meaning of the road in modern and ancient context.
Author | : Erin Hogan |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2008-11-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0226348482 |
Erin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American land art: a salty coil of rocks, four hundred stainless steel poles, a gash in a mesa, four concrete tubes, and military sheds filled with cubes. Her journey took her through the states of Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. It also took her through the states of anxiety, drunkenness, disorientation, and heat exhaustion. Spiral Jetta is a chronicle of this journey. A lapsed art historian and devoted urbanite, Hogan initially sought firsthand experience of the monumental earthworks of the 1970s and the 1980s—Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels, Walter De Maria’s Lightning Field, James Turrell’s Roden Crater, Michael Heizer’s Double Negative, and the contemporary art mecca of Marfa, Texas. Armed with spotty directions, no compass, and less-than-desert-appropriate clothing, she found most of what she was looking for and then some. “I was never quite sure what Hogan was looking for when she set out . . . or indeed whether she found it. But I loved the ride. In Spiral Jetta, an unashamedly honest, slyly uproarious, ever-probing book, art doesn’t magically have the power to change lives, but it can, perhaps no less powerfully, change ways of seeing.”—Tom Vanderbilt, New YorkTimes Book Review “The reader emerges enlightened and even delighted. . . . Casually scrutinizing the artistic works . . . while gamely playing up her fish-out-of-water status, Hogan delivers an ingeniously engaging travelogue-cum-art history.”—Atlantic “Smart and unexpectedly hilarious.”—Kevin Nance, ChicagoSun-Times “One of the funniest and most entertaining road trips to be published in quite some time.”—June Sawyers, ChicagoTribune “Hogan ruminates on how the work affects our sense of time, space, size, and scale. She is at her best when she reexamines the precepts of modernism in the changing light of New Mexico, and shows how the human body is meant to be a participant in these grand constructions.”—New Yorker
Author | : Richard L. Nostrand |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2018-01-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1538103974 |
This outstanding text provides students with the essential foundation in the historical geography of the United States. Distinguished scholar Richard L. Nostrand skillfully synthesizes decades of historical geography research in an engaging and thought-provoking overview. His regional geography framework emphasizes the three themes central to cultural geography—cultural ecology, cultural diffusion, and cultural landscape—to explain the formation and change of culture regions in the United States. He shows convincingly that regions are a valuable pedagogical device for developing students’ understanding of place and context.
Author | : Alison Booth |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2016-09-08 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0191076899 |
This is the first full-length study of literary tourism in North America as well as Britain, and a unique exploration of popular response to writers, literary house museums, and the landscapes or "countries " associated with their lives and works. An interdisciplinary study ranging from 1820-1940, Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries unites museum and tourism studies, book history, narrative theory, theories of gender, space, and things, and other approaches to depict and interpret the haunting experiences of exhibited houses and the curious history of topo-biographical writing about famous authors. In illustrated chapters that blend Victorian and recent first-person encounters that range from literary shrines and plaques to guidebooks, memoirs, portraits, and monuments, Alison Booth discusses pilgrims such as William and Mary Howitt, Anna Maria and Samuel Hall, and Elbert Hubbard, and magnetic hosts and guests as Washington Irving, Wordsworth, Martineau, Longfellow, Hawthorne, James, and Dickens. Virginia Woolf's feminist response to homes and haunts shapes a chapter on Mary Russell Mitford, Gaskell, and the Brontës, and another on the Carlyles' house and Monk's House. Booth rediscovers collections of personalities, haunted shrines, and imaginative re-enactments that have been submerged by a century of academic literary criticism.
Author | : Library of Congress |
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Total Pages | : 884 |
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Author | : Michelle Malkin |
Publisher | : Regnery Publishing |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2010-08-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1596986204 |
A syndicated conservative columnist and cable-news commentator asserts her opinion on Barack Obama, his cabinet, and other members of his circle.
Author | : Robert A. Kaster |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2014-04-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022614299X |
Describes travel down the Appian Way while analyzing the meaning of the road in modern and ancient context.
Author | : Jonathan Paquette |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2021-11-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9811635331 |
This book provides the first synthetic review of the literature on cultural roads and itineraries, providing a template for developing typologies and clarity on existing research. It additionally develops a unique conceptual framework for understanding the social, political, ethical, and spatial dynamics behind cultural roads and itineraries. The book takes the discussion on cultural roads in two different directions. Firstly, by taking a step back from tourism studies, leisure studies, and heritage studies in order to further the conversation on cultural roads with a broader set of disciplines, namely those in the humanities and social sciences. Secondly, through a series of broader theoretical reflections and considerations, the book draws its focus back to the development of the cultural road and cultural itineraries with a new conceptual apparatus that can inspire new questions for research and new ideas for practice. Throughout the text, concepts, theories, principles, and practices are explored and explained through detailed case study analyses.