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: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2021]
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Series: | SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |
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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Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America EBSCO eBook History Collection |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 383 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781438485560 1438485565 |