People of prowess : sport, leisure, and labor in early Anglo-America / Nancy L. Struna.
1996
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Title
People of prowess : sport, leisure, and labor in early Anglo-America / Nancy L. Struna.
Created/published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1996.
Description
x, 271 p. ; 24 cm
Associated name
Series statement
Sport and society
Bibliography, etc.
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.
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.
Series
Sport and society.
Call number
GV583 .S88 1996