People of prowess : sport, leisure, and labor in early Anglo-America
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People of prowess : sport, leisure, and labor in early Anglo-America
（Sport and society）
University of Illinois Press, c1996
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-258) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780252022470
Table of Contents
Sport in the old world -- A grand scheme -- Change and persistence in colonia sporting life, 1620s-1670s -- Sports and colonial popular culture, 1680s-173 -- Sport and rank making in the Chesapeake -- Mid-eighteenth-century sportin styles -- Taverns and sports -- Upper- and middle-rank "leisure" and sports Epilogue : people of prowess.
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: pbk ISBN 9780252065521
Description
Americans have revered prowess in sports going back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Nancy L. Struna explores the significance, meaning, and structure of competitive matches and displays of physical prowess for both men and women in colonial culture. Engrossingly written for the general reader as well as sport and leisure historians, People of Prowess is a pioneering work that explores a rarely examined area of colonial history and society.
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