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Playing games in nineteenth-century Britain and America / edited by Ann R. Hawkins, Erin N. Bistline, Catherine S. Blackwell, and Maura Ives.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century
- Suny series, studies in the long nineteenth century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Games--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Games.
- Games--United States--History--19th century.
- Amusements--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Amusements.
- Amusements--United States--History--19th century.
- History.
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century.
- Great Britain.
- Manners and customs.
- United States--Social life and customs--19th century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 02, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Playing games in nineteenth-century Britain and America
- ISBN:
- 9781438485560
- 1438485565
- Publisher Number:
- 40030797741
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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