Title Playing games in nineteenth-century Britain and America / edited by Ann R. Hawkins, Erin N. Bistline, Catherine S. Blackwell, and Maura Ives

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021] ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 383 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Suny series, studies in the long nineteenth century SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century. Contents Introduction : from snapdragon to three-card loo : rediscovering nineteenth-century games / Ann R. Hawkins, Miles A. Kimball, Erin N. Bistline, Allison Whitney, and Catherine S. Blackwell -- Bodies in play : boxing, dance, and the science of recreation / Kristin Flieger Samuelian and Mark Schoenfield -- Baseball in the frame of Gilded-Age America / Matthew Von Vogt -- "We are only horses and don't know" : sport and danger in fox hunting / Erin N. Bistline -- "The memory game" : play, trauma, and great expectations / Sean Grass -- Seeing Victorian culture through croquet's "treacherous wire portal" / Catherine S. Blackwell -- Acting charades in 1873 : girls and the stakes of the game / Heather Fitzsimmons Frey -- Dangerous games : the advent of wargaming in the nineteenth century / Andrew Byers -- The United States as wonderland : British literature, U.S. nationalism, and nineteenth-century children's and family board and card games / Michelle Beissel Heath -- Gaming the Great Exhibition of 1851 : children's board games, display, and imperial power / Megan A. Norcia -- Teetotum lives : mediating globalization in the nineteenth-century board game / Siobhan Carroll -- What did they play, and what does this say? : a quantitative and cultural analysis of British collected games in the nineteenth century through the games and research database / Maurice Suckling -- Professor Hoffmann's Victorian puzzles and stage magic / Andrew Rhoda -- "An endless round of delights" : materializing the toy theatre / Jennie MacDonald -- The game of authors, 1861-1900 : a case history / Maura Ives 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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 02, 2021) Subject Games -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Games -- United States -- History -- 19th century Amusements -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Amusements -- United States -- History -- 19th century Amusements Games Manners and customs SUBJECT Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056952 United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140534 Subject Great Britain United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Hawkins, Ann R., editor. Bistline, Erin N., editor. Blackwell, Catherine S., editor. Ives, Maura C., 1960- editor. LC no. 2021028911 ISBN 9781438485560 1438485565

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