| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.4

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.4 | The History Cooperative

Joseph A. Amato. On Foot: A History of Walking. New York: New York University Press. 2004. Pp. vi, 333. $29.95.
Joseph A. Amato is a prolific author whose works embrace a wide spectrum of inquiry. This book offers both a concise history and cultural analysis of walking in Euro-America and a description of the ways the trek, amble, stroll, and march have been superseded by technology.	1
Even as he traces the ways in which animals and vehicles have eclipsed walking, Amato is careful to remind readers that, until the latter half of the twentieth century, poverty compelled nearly all people to walk even as alternative modes of transportation became available. Those who had to walk and those who chose to walk for nonessential reasons—the flaneur, those who promenaded for effect, the hiker and trekker, the window shopper, and the rural rambler—lived in the different worlds that class defined. Amato's discussion of the physical conditions of road and paths, the difficulties carriages and wagons encountered in city and countryside, and of urban congestion on streets and alleys are especially compelling.	. . .

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