Tag: Leisure

Free Download Julia Brock, "Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of a New South: The Sporting Plantations of the South Carolina Lowcountry and Red H"
English | ISBN: 0739195786 | 2015 | 222 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of New South investigates the social, architectural, and environmental history of sporting plantations in the South Carolina lowcountry and the Red Hills region of southeast Georgia and northern Florida. Although plantations figure prominently in histories of the post-emancipation South, historians have paid little attention to the redevelopment of plantations for non-agricultural use. By examining the two largest concentrations of sporting plantations on the south Atlantic coast, this collection explores questions about historical memory of slavery, race relations, material culture, and the environment during the first half of the twentieth century.

Free Download Brad Beaven, "Leisure, citizenship and working-class men in Britain, 1850-1940 "
English | ISBN: 0719060281 | 2009 | 272 pages | PDF | 2 MB
From the bawdy audience of a Victorian Penny Gaff to the excitable crowd of an early twentieth century football match, working-class male leisure proved to be a contentious issue for contemporary observers. For middle-class social reformers from across the political spectrum, the spectacle of popular leisure offered a view of working-class habits, and a means by which lifestyles and behaviour could be assessed. For the mid-Victorians, gingerly stepping into a new mass democratic age, the desire to create a bond between the recently enfranchised male worker and the nation was more important than ever. This trend continued as those in governance perceived that ‘good’ leisure and citizenship could fend off challenges to social stability such as imperial decline, the mass degenerate city, hooliganism, civic and voter apathy and fascism. Thus, between 1850 and 1945 the issue of male leisure became enmeshed with changing contemporary debates on the encroaching mass society and its implications for good citizenry. Working-class culture has often been depicted as an atomised and fragmented entity lacking any significant cultural contestation. Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary source material, this book powerfully challenges these recent assumptions and places social class centre stage once more. Arguing that there was a remarkable continuity in male working-class culture between 1850 and 1945, Beaven contends that despite changing socio-economic contexts, male working-class culture continued to draw from a tradition of active participation and cultural contestation that was both class and gender exclusive. This lively and readable book draws from fascinating accounts from those who participated in and observed contemporary popular leisure making it of importance to students and teachers of social history, popular culture, urban history, historical geography, historical sociology and cultural studies.

Free Download Luck, Leisure, and the Casino in Nineteenth-Century Europe: A Cultural History of Gambling
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009393545 | 227 Pages | PDF | 11 MB
Gambling was central to the cultural, social, and intellectual history of nineteenth-century Europe. By tracing the evolution of gambling and investigating the spatial qualities of the casino, this book reveals how Europeans used gambling to understand their changing world. The development of resorts and the architectural qualities of casinos demonstrate how new leisure practices, combined with revolutions in transportation and communication, fashioned resort gambling in the Rhineland and Riviera. Jared Poley explores the importance of casino gambling in people’s lives, probing how gambling and fate intersected. The casino impacted understandings of the body, excited emotions, and drove the ‘psychology’ of the gambler, as well as affecting ideas about probability, chance, and luck. Ultimately, this book addresses the fundamental question of what gambling was for, and how it opened up opportunities to understand theories about aggression, play, and human development.

Free Download Childhoods & Leisure: Cross-Cultural and Inter-Disciplinary Dialogues
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031337883 | 377 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 9 MB
This edited volume brings together interdisciplinary scholarship on children’s everyday leisure from across the globe, addressing key questions around children’s agency, rights, child-adult relations, and social change. It is positioned to inaugurate a new frontier of research within leisure studies.

Free Download Denyze Toffoli, "Language Learning and Leisure: Informal Language Learning in the Digital Age "
English | ISBN: 3110752344 | 2023 | 440 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 32 MB
The study of informal involvement with additional languages has recently emerged as a dynamic research field in SLA. With the rapid development and spread of internet-based technologies, contact with foreign languages outside the classroom has become commonplace. While this can take multiple forms, online contents are a major driving force because they present learners with unprecedented opportunities for exposure to and use of target languages regardless of their physical location. Research from diverse geographical, educational and socio-economic contexts bring a rich variety of perspectives to this book. It explores these phenomena via a range of theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches, focusing particularly on individual differences and language development. The volume proposes that teachers in formal learning settings should seek to support and facilitate the development of these identities and practices, and it indicates means they can adopt to best do so.

Free Download Travel+Leisure USA – August 2023
English | 190 pages | True PDF | 320 MB

Free Download Leisure and Feminist Theory By Betsy Wearing
1999 | 219 Pages | ISBN: 0803975368 | PDF | 54 MB
Wide-ranging and challenging, this book offers a host of new insights into how leisure theory has handled the question of gender difference and inequality. Providing a critical introduction to the leading positions in leisure theory, Betsy Wearing guides the reader through their strengths and weaknesses from a feminist perspective. This book draws attention to the various leisure experiences that women encounter and construct in their everyday lives and the meanings that these experiences have for them. Her perspective takes into account such poststructuralist ideas as multiple subjectivities of women and multiple femininities; the possibilities of resistance to male dominance in leisure; the potential through leisure of rewriting

Free Download Travel+Leisure India & South Asia – July 2023
English | 100 pages | True PDF | 51.9 MB

Free Download Leisure Painter – September 2023
English | 98 pages | True PDF | 242 MB

Free Download Jim Eggert, "Meadowlark Economies: Work and Leisure in the Ecosystem"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1563241633 | EPUB | pages: 144 | 0.9 mb
First Published in 2017. The author shares their feelings about enjoying and preserving the natural environment, yet this book also reveals a conflict in values that the most committed ecologist must face. Such conflict pits the powerful American values of individual freedom and rights against the values of community necessary for sustaining the environment. In publishing this collection of essays, the author hopes to contribute to more enlightened economic analysis and more relevant and effective policies that are good for both the economy and the global ecology.