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Histories of Leisure

Author : Rudy Koshar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1845205448
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book Histories of Leisure written by Rudy Koshar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the American and French revolutions, European culture saw the evolution of a new leisure regime never previously enjoyed. Now we speak of modern leisure societies, but the history of leisure, its experiences and expectations, its scope and variability, still remains largely a matter of conjecture. One message that has emerged from a multiplicity of disciplines is that research on leisure and consumption opens up a hitherto untapped mine of information on the broader issues of politics, society, culture and economics. How have leisure regimes in Europe evolved since the eighteenth century? Why has leisure culture crystallized around particular practices, sites and objects? Above all, what sorts of connections and meanings have been inscribed in leisure practices, and how might these be compared across time and space? This book is the first to provide an historical overview of modern leisure in a wide range of manifestations: travel, entertainment, sports, fashion, 'taste' and much more. It will be essential reading for anyone wishing to know more about European history and culture or simply how people spent their free time before the age of television and the internet.

A Handbook of Leisure Studies

Author : C. Rojek
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230625185
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book A Handbook of Leisure Studies written by C. Rojek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-06-20 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique, international resource for Leisure Studies: in one volume the history, organization and central debates in the field of Leisure Studies are defined, providing a one-stop-shop for students and an agenda for future debate and research academics.

The Story of Leisure

Author : Jay Sanford Shivers
Publisher : Human Kinetics Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Leisure written by Jay Sanford Shivers and published by Human Kinetics Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only is The Story of Leisure an outstanding textbook; it's also an enjoyable read for recreational specialists, sport historians, and sport sociologists.

Kraus' Recreation and Leisure in Modern Society

Author : Daniel D. McLean
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780763707569
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Kraus' Recreation and Leisure in Modern Society written by Daniel D. McLean and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2005 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Jan Louise Jones, Southern Connecticut State University --Book Jacket.

The Frontier of Leisure

Author : Lawrence Culver
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199779686
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Frontier of Leisure written by Lawrence Culver and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-20 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern California has long been promoted as the playground of the world, the home of resort-style living, backyard swimming pools, and year-round suntans. Tracing the history of Southern California from the late nineteenth century through the late twentieth century, The Frontier of Leisure reveals how this region did much more than just create lavish resorts like Santa Catalina Island and Palm Springs--it literally remade American attitudes towards leisure. Lawrence Culver shows how this "culture of leisure" gradually took hold with an increasingly broad group of Americans, and ultimately manifested itself in suburban developments throughout the Sunbelt and across the United States. He further shows that as Southern Californians promoted resort-style living, they also encouraged people to turn inward, away from public spaces and toward their private homes and communities. Impressively researched, a fascinating and lively read, this finely nuanced history connects Southern Californian recreation and leisure to larger historical themes, including regional development, architecture and urban planning, race relations, Indian policy, politics, suburbanization, and changing perceptions of nature.

Whatever Happened to the Leisure Society?

Author : A. J. Veal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367519933
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Whatever Happened to the Leisure Society? written by A. J. Veal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical and empirically-rich book documents and analyses the rise and fall of the leisure society idea, examines its role in the study of leisure, and assesses its relevance to the challenges facing global society in the 21st Century.

The Leisure Commons

Author : Payal Arora
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317678923
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book The Leisure Commons written by Payal Arora and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is much excitement about Web 2.0 as an unprecedented, novel, community-building space for experiencing, producing, and consuming leisure, particularly through social network sites. What is needed is a perspective that is invested in neither a utopian or dystopian posture but sees historical continuity to this cyberleisure geography. This book investigates the digital public sphere by drawing parallels to another leisure space that shares its rhetoric of being open, democratic, and free for all: the urban park. It makes the case that the history and politics of public parks as an urban commons provides fresh insight into contemporary debates on corporatization, democratization and privatization of the digital commons. This book takes the reader on a metaphorical journey through multiple forms of public parks such as Protest Parks, Walled Gardens, Corporate Parks, Fantasy Parks, and Global Parks, addressing issues such as virtual activism, online privacy/surveillance, digital labor, branding, and globalization of digital networks. Ranging from the 19th century British factory garden to Tokyo Disneyland, this book offers numerous spatial metaphors to bring to life aspects of new media spaces. Readers looking for an interdisciplinary, historical and spatial approach to staid Web 2.0 discourses will undoubtedly benefit from this text.

The Business of Leisure

Author : Andrew Grant Wood
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 149621322X
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book The Business of Leisure written by Andrew Grant Wood and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection explore the history of tourism and its promotion and development throughout Latin American and the Caribbean in the twentieth century.

Kraus' Recreation and Leisure in Modern Society

Author : Daniel McLean
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1449689574
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Kraus' Recreation and Leisure in Modern Society written by Daniel McLean and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new full-color design with perforated worksheets, the Tenth Edition of Kraus' Recreation and Leisure in Modern Society provides a detailed introduction to the history, developments, and current trends in leisure studies. It addresses contemporary issues facing the recreation and leisure profession and focuses on challenges and opportunities that impact the profession now as well as years from now. Extensive research into emerging trends helps support the text and provide insights into the future. Focusing on the ten different types of organizations --ranging from nonprofit community organizations and armed forces recreation to sports management and travel and tourism sponsors -- this classic text text is an invaluable resource for students considering a career in the recreation and leisure industry. New to the Tenth Edition: - Discusses how specific trends, such as dramatic shifts in population make-up, the impact of technology, and marketing affect leisure-service systems and the recreation and park professions. - Focus on the role of parks and recreation on the health and wellness of our communities as well as means to combat the obesity epidemic in North America. - Includes new case studies which allow students to apply knowledge of technology in leisure, identify the value and benefits of play, and recognize the changing family structures of our modern society.

Leisure

Author : Josef Pieper
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1586172565
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Leisure written by Josef Pieper and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Joseph Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial than it was when it first appeared fifty years ago. Pieper shows that Greeks understood and valued leisure, as did the medieval Europeans. He points out that religion can be born only in leisure. Leisure that allows time for the contemplation of the nature of God. Leisure has been, and always will be, the first foundation of any culture. He maintains that our bourgeois world of total labor has vanquished leisure, and issues a startling warning: Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our cultureCand ourselves. These astonishing essays contradict all our pragmatic and puritanical conceptions about labor and leisure; Joseph Pieper demolishes the twentieth-century cult of Awork as he predicts its destructive consequences.

Constructing Leisure

Author : K. Spracklen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230348726
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Constructing Leisure written by K. Spracklen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks back at the meaning and purpose of leisure in the past. But this is not a simple social history of leisure. It is not enough to write a history of leisure on its own in fact, it is impossible without engaging in the debate about what counts as leisure (in the present and in the past). Writing a history of leisure, then, entails writing a philosophy of leisure: and any history needs to be a philosophical history as well. That is the purpose of this book. It provides an account of leisure through historical time, how leisure was constructed and understood by historical actors, how communicative reason and free will interacted with instrumentality at different times, how historians have reconstructed past leisure through historiography, and finally, how writers have perceived the meaning and purpose of leisure in alternative histories. Providing a sweeping overview of the field, Karl Spracklen charts how the concept of leisure was understood in Ancient history, through to modern times, and looks at leisure in different societies and cultures including Byzantium and Asian civilizations, as well as looking at leisure and Islam. Spracklen concludes with a chapter on future histories of leisure.

Grand Tours and Cook's Tours

Author : Lynne Withey
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Grand Tours and Cook's Tours written by Lynne Withey and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1997 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Grand Tours and Cook's Tours' is the story of intellectuals and the very rich, the not so rich, the infamous and the anonymous seeking adventure and satisfying ways of exploring the world, from the mid-18th century to World War One.

Leisure and Spirituality (Engaging Culture)

Author : Paul Heintzman
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1441245499
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Leisure and Spirituality (Engaging Culture) written by Paul Heintzman and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This addition to the award-winning Engaging Culture series explores the link between leisure and spirituality, offering a Christian perspective on leisure concepts and issues in contemporary society. Paul Heintzman, a respected scholar and experienced recreation practitioner, interacts with biblical, historical, and contemporary leisure studies sources to provide a comprehensive understanding of leisure. He also explains the importance of leisure for spiritual growth and development. This work will appeal to professors and students as well as practitioners in the recreation and leisure services field, youth and college pastors, and camp ministries.

Eight Hours for What We Will

Author : Roy Rosenzweig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521313971
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Eight Hours for What We Will written by Roy Rosenzweig and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the city of Worcester, Massachusetts the author takes the reader to the saloons, the amusement parks, and the movie houses where American industrial workers spent their leisure hours, to explore the nature of working-class culture and class relations during this era.

Gentleman of Leisure

Author : Susan Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781576873113
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (731 download)

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Download or read book Gentleman of Leisure written by Susan Hall and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A facsimile edition of the first 1972 edition that followed Silky, a pimp, and his women through an entire year of life on the streets of New York City. Bob Adelman dives headlong onto the world of the original Macks and players - the Big City Pimps - in this in-depth photographic exploration of the underworld figures that populated the streets of New York City. Armed with only a camera Adelman entered the lives of Silky and his women. This facsimile edition re-introduces this classic of the times and makes available, once more, this compelling and hugely popular book.

Leisure Matters

Author : Gordon J. Walker
Publisher : Venture Publishing Incorporated, U.S.
ISBN 13 : 9781939476067
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Leisure Matters written by Gordon J. Walker and published by Venture Publishing Incorporated, U.S.. This book was released on 2016-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book updates and expands Jackson and Burtons "Mapping the Past, Charting the Future" (1989) and "Leisure Studies: Prospects for the Twenty-First Century" (1999). The need to do so was driven by the significant new developments in the leisure studies field as well as the arrival of new and upcoming experts in specific areas of study. The book features new sections on: Disciplinary Perspectives (including chapters on anthropology, history, philosophy, psychology, sociology, biology, and economics of leisure); Cognate Area Perspectives (including chapters on leisure, health, and physical activity; leisure and religion/spirituality; sport as leisure; and tourism); International Perspectives (including chapters on leisure in Africa, Australia and New Zealand, East Asia, Europe, Latin America); Diverse Perspectives (including chapters on leisure in terms of youth, family, older adults, immigrants, racial and ethnic groups, the LGBQ community; and people with disabilities). Other book chapters focus on leisure theory; leisure, time, and technology; leisure needs, motivations, and constraints; leisure, place, and social capital; leisure planning, marketing, and management; leisure research methods; and the future of the leisure studies field. Approximately 80% of each chapter summarises the current state of that specific leisure concept, topic, or area, while the remaining 20% dares to speculate imaginatively about where it could (and should) proceed in the future. Both summary and speculation are limited to approximately 6,000 words, as chapter authors were instructed to heed French philosopher Blaise Pascals (1656) oft-cited apology that I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter. While the book maintains the spirit and rigour of Jackson and Burtons earlier books, it also reflects the growth and maturity that has subsequently occurred in the leisure studies field.

A Social History of Leisure Since 1600

Author : Gary S. Cross
Publisher : Venture Publishing (PA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book A Social History of Leisure Since 1600 written by Gary S. Cross and published by Venture Publishing (PA). This book was released on 1990 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and generation in 19th-century leisure -- Leisure for the masses, the commercialization of entertainment in the 19th century -- Participants and spectators, modernization of sport as leisure -- Dilemmas of leisure and public policy, 1900-1940 -- Consumer leisure and the 20th-century suburb -- Working-class and youth at play in the 20th century -- Looking foward from the recent past. Why a social history of leisure? -- Traditional society and the place of leisure -- Leisure and reform, 1500-1700 -- Anglo-American leisure on the eve of industrialization, 1660-1800 -- Industrialization, work and play, 1780-1850 -- Quest for leisure, 1820-1900 -- Rational recreation and the Victorian city, 1830-1900 -- Gender and generation in 19th-century leisure --Leisure for the masses, the commercialization of entertainment in the 19th century -- Participants and spectators, modernization of sport as leisure --Dilemmas of leisure and public policy, 1900-1940 -- Consumer leisure and the 20th-century suburb -- Working-class and youth at play in the 20th century --Looking forward from the recent past.