Killing time : leisure and culture in southwestern Pennsylvania, 1800-1850
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Killing time : leisure and culture in southwestern Pennsylvania, 1800-1850
（Pittsburgh series in social and labor history）
University of Pittsburgh Press, c1995
Available at 4 libraries
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Includes bibliographiy (p. 283-300) and index
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Description
This work examines leisure as a "contested cultural space" in which 19th-century Americans articulated and developed ideas about ethnicity, class, gender and community. It shows how leisure and sociability mediated the transition from an agricultural to an industrial society.
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