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"--
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Albany :
SUNY Press,
2021.
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| Series: | SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.
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| 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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 383 pages illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781438485553 1438485557 |