Cultural Legacy of the Royal Game of the Goose
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art history
Author_Adrian Seville
board games
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cultural history
educational game studies
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European cultural history
historical board games
history of leisure
iconography
nineteenth century leisure
print media analysis
printing history.
propaganda in games
race game historical development
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- ISBN 9781041187554
- Weight: 710g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2025
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Game of the Goose is one of the oldest printed board games, dating back 400 years. It has spawned thousands of derivatives: simple race games, played with dice, on themes that mirror much of human activity. Its legacy can be traced in games of education, advertising and polemic, as well as in those of amusement and gambling - and games on new themes are still being developed. This book, by the leading international collector of the genre, is devoted to showing why the Game of the Goose is special and why it can lay claim to being the most influential of any printed game in the cultural history of Europe. Detailed study of the games reveals their historical provenance and - reversing the process - gives unusual insights into the cultures which produced them. They therefore provide rich sources for the cultural historian. This book is beautifully illustrated with more than 90 illustrations, many in color, which are integrated throughout the text.
Adrian Seville (Emeritus Professor of City University, London) is a leading collector and researcher of printed board games. His 2016 exhibition at the Grolier Club of New York was hailed in *The Wall Street Journal* as a ‘mindopening cultural event’.
