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amateur sports
American colonial history
Anglo-American sport
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Britain
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colonial era
colonial history
colonial sporting life
displays
eighteenth century sports
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games
individual sport
leisure
Massachusetts
middle class leisure
patterns
playing sports
seventeenth century America
seventeenth century sports
social class
social ranking
social rites
sport and colonial social life
sport and leisure
sport history colonial America
sport history early America
sport in Britain
sport in Chesapeake
sport in colonial Massachusetts
sporting practices
sporting styles
taverns
themes
theory of play
upper class leisure
Product details
- ISBN 9780252065521
- Weight: 399g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 1996
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Americans have revered prowess in sports going back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Nancy L. Struna explores the significance, meaning, and structure of competitive matches and displays of physical prowess for both men and women in colonial culture. Engrossingly written for the general reader as well as sport and leisure historians, People of Prowess is a pioneering work that explores a rarely examined area of colonial history and society.
Nancy L. Struna, is a professor emerita in American studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a former president of the North American Society for Sport History.
