Playing games in nineteenth-century Britain and America /

"This book illuminates the ways that games--from baseball cards to board games, poker to boxing, and croquet to strategies of war -- were integral to nineteenth-century life and culture in the US and UK"--

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hawkins, Ann R. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : SUNY Press, 2021.
Series:SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.
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Description
Summary:"This book illuminates the ways that games--from baseball cards to board games, poker to boxing, and croquet to strategies of war -- were integral to nineteenth-century life and culture in the US and UK"--
Physical Description:xv, 383 pages illustrations ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781438485553
1438485557