Playing games in nineteenth-century Britain and America /

"This book illuminates the ways that games--from baseball cards to board games, poker to boxing, and croquet to strategies of war -- were integral to nineteenth-century life and culture in the US and UK"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hawkins, Ann R. (Editor ), Bistline, Erin N. (Editor ), Blackwell, Catherine S. (Editor ), Ives, Maura C., 1960- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
Colección:SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.
Temas:
1800-1899
Games > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Games > United States > History > 19th century.
Amusements > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Amusements > United States > History > 19th century.
Jeux > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Amusements
Games
Manners and customs
Great Britain > Social life and customs > 19th century.
United States > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Mœurs et coutumes > 19e siècle.
États-Unis > Mœurs et coutumes > 19e siècle.
Great Britain
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : from snapdragon to three-card loo : rediscovering nineteenth-century games / Ann R. Hawkins, Miles A. Kimball, Erin N. Bistline, Allison Whitney, and Catherine S. Blackwell
  • Bodies in play : boxing, dance, and the science of recreation / Kristin Flieger Samuelian and Mark Schoenfield
  • Baseball in the frame of Gilded-Age America / Matthew Von Vogt
  • "We are only horses and don't know" : sport and danger in fox hunting / Erin N. Bistline
  • "The memory game" : play, trauma, and great expectations / Sean Grass
  • Seeing Victorian culture through croquet's "treacherous wire portal" / Catherine S. Blackwell
  • Acting charades in 1873 : girls and the stakes of the game / Heather Fitzsimmons Frey
  • Dangerous games : the advent of wargaming in the nineteenth century / Andrew Byers
  • The United States as wonderland : British literature, U.S. nationalism, and nineteenth-century children's and family board and card games / Michelle Beissel Heath
  • Gaming the Great Exhibition of 1851 : children's board games, display, and imperial power / Megan A. Norcia
  • Teetotum lives : mediating globalization in the nineteenth-century board game / Siobhan Carroll
  • What did they play, and what does this say? : a quantitative and cultural analysis of British collected games in the nineteenth century through the games and research database / Maurice Suckling
  • Professor Hoffmann's Victorian puzzles and stage magic / Andrew Rhoda
  • "An endless round of delights" : materializing the toy theatre / Jennie MacDonald
  • The game of authors, 1861-1900 : a case history / Maura Ives.

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