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Illuminates the ways games--from baseball cards to board games, charades to boxing, and croquet to strategies of war--were integral to nineteenth-century life and culture in the United States and Britain.
A vital part of daily life in the nineteenth century, games and play were so familiar and so ubiquitous that their presence over time became almost invisible. Technological advances during the century allowed for easier manufacturing and distribution of board games and books about games, and the changing economic conditions created a larger market for them as well as more time in which to play them. These changing conditions not only made games more profitable, but they also increased the influence of games on many facets of culture. Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America focuses on the material and visual culture of both American and British games, examining how cultures of play intersect with evolving gender norms, economic structures, scientific discourses, social movements, and nationalist sentiments.
- ISBN13 9781438485546
- ISBN10 1438485549
- Pàgines 399
- Any Edició 2022
- Fecha de publicación 02/07/2022
- Idioma Alemany, Francès
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Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America (Alemany, Francès)
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- State University of New York Press (2022)
- 9781438485546



