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Playing games in nineteenth-century Britain and America
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"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 a...
"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"--
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- Creator
- edited by Ann R. Hawkins, Erin N. Bistline, Catherine S. Blackwell, and Maura Ives
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
- Physical Details
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- xv, 383 pages illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1438485565, 1438485549, 1438485557, 9781438485546, 9781438485553, 9781438485560
- OCLC
- on1260689619, on1240772296
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- 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
Subjects
- Games -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
- Games -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Amusements -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
- Amusements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
- United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.