People of prowess : sport, leisure, and labor in early Anglo-America / Nancy L. Struna.
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TextSeries: Sport and societyPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1996.Description: x, 271 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0252065522 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- Sports -- United States -- History -- 17th century
- Sports -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Sports -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 17th century
- Sports -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Leisure -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 17th century
- Leisure -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- GV583 .S88 1996
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-258) and index.
Sport in the old world -- A grand scheme -- Change and persistence in colonial sporting life, 1620s-1670s -- Sports and colonial popular culture, 1680s-1730s -- Sport and rank making in the Chesapeake -- Mid-eighteenth-century sporting styles -- Taverns and sports -- Upper- and middle-rank "leisure" and sports -- Epilogue : people of prowess.
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