| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Gale virtual reference library |
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The Scribner American civilization series |
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Gale virtual reference library.
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Scribner American civilization series.
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| Contents |
volume 1. Adapted Leisure Formats -- Adult Education (Earlier) -- Aerobic Exercise -- African American Leisure Lifestyles -- Agricultural Fairs -- Air Travel and Leisure -- Amateur Radio -- Amateur Theatrics -- Antiques -- Archery -- Asian American Leisure Lifestyles -- Atlantic City -- Auctions -- Auto Racing -- Auto Shows -- Automobiles and Leisure -- Backpacking and Hiking -- Band Playing -- Barbershop Quartets -- Barn Raising -- Bars -- Baseball, Amateur -- Baseball Crowds -- Basketball -- Beaches -- Beauty Culture -- Beauty Pageants -- Bicycling -- Billiards/Pool -- Bird Watching -- Birthdays -- Blood Sports -- Board Games -- Boating, Power -- Body Culture and Physical Culture -- Bodybuilding -- Books and Manuscripts -- Botanical Gardens -- Bowling -- Boxing -- -- Brothels -- Camping -- Card Games -- Carnivals -- Caving -- Central Park -- Childhood and Play -- Children's Museums -- Children's Reading -- Choral Singing -- Christmas -- Church Socials -- Circuses -- City Parks -- Civic Clubs, Men -- Civic Clubs, Women -- Clocks and Watches -- Coffee Houses and Café Society -- Coin Collecting -- Collecting -- Colonial-Era Leisure and Recreation -- Comic Book Reading -- Comic Magazines -- Commercialization of Children's Play -- The Commercialization of Leisure -- Computer/Video Games -- Computer's Impact on Leisure -- Coney Island -- Contemporary Leisure Patterns -- Cooking for Fun -- Country Music Audiences -- Crossword Puzzles -- Crowds and Leisure -- Cruising -- Cyber Dating -- Dance Classes -- Dance Halls -- Darts -- Dating -- Diners -- Dining Out -- Disability and Leisure Lifestyles -- Disneyland -- Drag Racing -- Drinking -- Drinking Games -- Early National Leisure and Recreation -- Easter -- Expansion of Leisure Time -- Extreme Sports -- Fads -- Fans and Fan Clubs -- Fantasy Sports -- Fashions -- Fast Food -- Field Hockey -- Fishing, Freshwater -- Fishing, Saltwater/Deep Sea -- Football -- Football, Collegiate -- Fourth of July -- Frolics -- Gambling -- Garage and Yard Sales -- Gardening and Lawn Care -- Gay Men's Leisure Lifestyles -- Genre Reading -- Gilded Age Leisure and Recreation -- Globalization of American Leisure -- Golf -- Graphic Arts -- Gymnastics -- Halloween -- Handball -- Heritage Sites -- Historical Reenactment Societies -- Hobbies and Crafts -- Home Brewing -- Home Decoration -- Home Improvement -- Home Movies -- Honeymooning -- Hook-Ups -- Horse Racing -- Hot Rodding -- Hunting -- Ice Hockey -- Impresarios of Leisure, Rise of -- Internet -- Interwar Leisure and Recreation -- Jewish American Leisure Lifestyles -- Joking -- Kite Flying -- Labor Day -- Las Vegas -- Latino Leisure Lifestyles -- Leisure and Civil Society -- Leisure Class -- Leisure Education -- Leisure, Theory of -- Lesbian Leisure Lifestyles -- Literary Societies and Middlebrow Reading -- Little League |
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volume 2. Magazines, Men's -- Magazines, Women's -- Marathons -- Mardi Gras -- Martial Arts -- Media, Technology, and Leisure -- Memorial Day -- Men's Leisure Lifestyles -- Modeling (Airplanes, Trains, Etc.) -- Mountain Climbing -- Movies' Impact on Popular Leisure -- Mumming -- "Muscular Christianity" and the YM(W)CA Movements -- Museum Movements -- Muslim American Leisure Lifestyles -- National Parks -- Native American Leisure Lifestyles -- New Year's -- Niagara Falls -- Olympics -- Open Wheel Racing -- Orienteering -- Parades -- Park Movements -- Patriotism and Leisure -- Performing Arts Audiences -- Pet Care -- Philanthropy -- Photography -- Piano Playing -- Plantation Entertaining -- Playgrounds -- Pornography -- Postwar to 1980 Leisure and Recreation -- Privatization of Leisure -- Professionalization of Sport -- Progressive-Era Leisure and Recreation -- Prohibition and Temperance -- Prostitution -- Puritans at Leisure -- Quilting Parties -- Racial Diversity and Leisure Lifestyles -- Racquetball -- Radio Listening, Car and Home -- Railroads and Leisure -- Rap Music Audiences -- Rational Recreation and Self-Improvement -- Raves/Raving -- Record, CD, Tape collecting and Listening -- Recreational Drug Use -- Recreational Fighting -- Recreational Vehicles -- Regulation and Social Control of Leisure -- Reunions -- Rites of Passage -- Rock Climbing -- Rock Concert Audiences -- Rockhounding -- Rodeos -- Roller Skating and Blading -- Running and Jogging -- Sabbatarianism -- Sailing and Yachting -- Scouting Movements -- Scuba Diving/Snorkeling -- Sea Travel and Leisure -- Sea World -- Senior Leisure Lifestyles -- Shopping -- Shopping Malls -- Shortage of Leisure -- Skateboarding -- Skiing, Alpine -- Skiing, Nordic -- Slave Singing/Music Making -- Smoking -- Snowboarding -- Soccer -- Social Dancing -- Softball -- Southern America Leisure Lifestyles -- Sporting Halls of Fame -- Sporting Memorabilia -- Sports Car Racing -- Spring Breaks -- Square Dancing -- Stadiums -- Stamp Collecting -- State Parks -- Stock Car Racing -- Suburbanization of Leisure -- Summer Resorts -- Sun City -- Surfing -- Swimming -- Tailgating -- Target Shooting -- Teenage Leisure Trends -- Television's Impact on Popular Leisure -- Television's Impact on Youth and Children's Play -- Tennis -- Thanksgiving -- Theater, Live -- Theme and Amusement Parks -- Tobogganing -- Tourism -- Traditional Folk Music Festivals -- Triathlons -- Ultimate Frisbee -- Urbanization of Leisure -- Vacations -- Volleyball -- Walt Disney World -- Waterskiing -- Weddings -- Western America Leisure Lifestyles -- Whitewater Sports -- Wild West Shows -- Wilding -- Windsurfing -- Wine Tasting -- Women's Leisure Lifestyles -- Woodworking -- Work and Leisure Ethics -- Working-Class Leisure Lifestyles -- World's Fairs -- Wrestling, Professional -- Zoos |
| Summary |
From rodeos to quilting bees, stickball to stock car racing, American pastimes comprise a broad range of activities. The two-volume Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America provides a comprehensive survey of these activities from the Colonial era to the present. This title examines how the pursuit of leisure has changed over time, reflecting shifting social, cultural, political and economic trends in the United States. Particular attention is paid to how leisure activities have varied by region, class, ethnicity, gender and age |
| Notes |
Electronic version of 2 volume set |
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Published as part of the Gale virtual reference library |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Leisure -- United States -- Encyclopedias
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Recreation -- United States -- Encyclopedias
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Leisure.
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Recreation.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Computer network resources
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Dictionaries.
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Encyclopedias.
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Encyclopedias.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cross, Gary S.
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| ISBN |
0684312654 |
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0684312662 |
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0684312670 |
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0684314509 |
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9780684312651 |
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9780684312668 |
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9780684312675 |
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9780684314501 |
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