A social history of leisure : since 1600 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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State College, Pa. :
Venture Publishing,
[1990]
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Table of Contents:
- Why a social history of leisure?
- Traditional society and the place of leisure
- Leisure and reform, 1500-1700
- Anglo-American leisure on the eve of industrialization, 1660-1800
- Industrialization, work and play, 1780-1850
- Quest for leisure, 1820-1900
- Rational recreation and the Victorian city, 1830-1900
- Gender and generation in 19th-century leisure
- Leisure for the masses, the commercialization of entertainment in the 19th century
- Participants and spectators, modernization of sport as leisure
- Dilemmas of leisure and public policy, 1900-1940
- Consumer leisure and the 20th-century suburb
- Working-class and youth at play in the 20th century
- Looking foward from the recent past.