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Playing games in nineteenth-century Britain and America

Title
Playing games in nineteenth-century Britain and America / edited by Ann R. Hawkins, Erin N. Bistline, Catherine S. Blackwell, and Maura Ives.
Publication
Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]

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Additional Authors
  • Hawkins, Ann R.
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Description
1 online resource.
Series Statement
Suny series, studies in the long nineteenth century
Uniform Title
SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • 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
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description (note)
  • Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 02, 2021).
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.
ISBN
  • 9781438485560
  • 1438485565
LCCN
2021028911
OCLC
2021028911
Title
Playing games in nineteenth-century Britain and America / edited by Ann R. Hawkins, Erin N. Bistline, Catherine S. Blackwell, and Maura Ives.
Publisher
Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Series
Suny series, studies in the long nineteenth century
SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Note
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 02, 2021).
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Available from home with a valid library card
Chronological Term
1800-1899
Added Author
Hawkins, Ann R., editor.
EBSCOhost
Other Form:
Print version: Playing games in nineteenth-century Britain and America Albany : SUNY Press, 2021 9781438485553 (DLC) 2021028910
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