| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 383 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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text file |
| Series |
Suny series, studies in the long nineteenth century
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SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Games -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Games. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Games -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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United States. |
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Amusements -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Amusements. |
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Amusements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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Manners and customs. |
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Hawkins, Ann R., editor.
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Bistline, Erin N., editor.
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Blackwell, Catherine S., editor.
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Ives, Maura C., 1960- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Playing games in nineteenth-century Britain and America Albany : SUNY Press, 2021 9781438485553 (DLC) 2021028910 |
| ISBN |
9781438485560 electronic book |
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1438485565 electronic book |
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9781438485553 hardcover |
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1438485557 hardcover |
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