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People of prowess : sport, leisure, and labor in early Anglo-America
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Title
People of prowess : sport, leisure, and labor in early Anglo-America / Nancy L. Struna.
ISBN
0252022475 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0252065522 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1996.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Variant and related titles
Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-258) and index.
Contents
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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