Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
Author: Hawkins, Ann R. (EDT)/ Bistline, Erin N. (EDT)/ Blackwell, Catherine S. (EDT)/ Ives, Maura (EDT)
ISBN: 9781438485553
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RM734.83
Publisher,State Univ of New York Pr
Publication Date,
Format, Hardcover
Weight, 657.71 g
No. of Pages, 383
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--