People of prowess : sport, leisure, and labor in early Anglo-America / Nancy L. Struna.
Material type: TextSeries: Sport and societyPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1996Description: x 271 p. : 24 cmISBN:- 0252065522 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
- GV583 .S88 1996
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Books | Humanities and Socal Sciences Library Collection General Collection | Non-fiction | GV583 .S77 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | C.1 | Available | 172260 |
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.
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