A social history of leisure : since 1600 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cross, Gary S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.