People of prowess :
Struna, Nancy L 1950-
People of prowess : sport, leisure, and labor in early Anglo-America / Nancy L. Struna. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1996 - x 271 p. : 24 cm. - Sport and society .
include index
Sport in the old world -- A grand scheme -- Change and persistence in colonial sporting life, 1620s-1670s -- Sports and colonial popular culture, 1680s-1730s -- Sport and rank making in the Chesapeake -- Mid-eighteenth-century sporting styles -- Taverns and sports -- Upper- and middle-rank "leisure" and sports -- Epilogue : people of prowess.
0252065522 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
95050193
Sports
Leisure
GV583 / .S88 1996
People of prowess : sport, leisure, and labor in early Anglo-America / Nancy L. Struna. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1996 - x 271 p. : 24 cm. - Sport and society .
include index
Sport in the old world -- A grand scheme -- Change and persistence in colonial sporting life, 1620s-1670s -- Sports and colonial popular culture, 1680s-1730s -- Sport and rank making in the Chesapeake -- Mid-eighteenth-century sporting styles -- Taverns and sports -- Upper- and middle-rank "leisure" and sports -- Epilogue : people of prowess.
0252065522 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
95050193
Sports
Leisure
GV583 / .S88 1996