| Description |
297 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-286) and index. |
| Contents |
Why a social history of leisure? -- Traditional society and the place of leisure -- Leisure and reform, 1500-1700 -- Anglo-American leisure on the eve of industrialization, 1660-1800 -- Industrialization, work and play, 1780-1850 -- Quest for leisure, 1820-1900 -- Rational recreation and the Victorian city, 1830-1900 -- Gender and generation in 19th-century leisure -- Leisure for the masses, the commercialization of entertainment in the 19th century -- Participants and spectators, modernization of sport as leisure -- Dilemmas of leisure and public policy, 1900-1940 -- Consumer leisure and the 20th-century suburb -- Working-class and youth at play in the 20th century -- Looking forward from the recent past. |
| Subject |
Leisure -- Social aspects -- History.
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Leisure -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
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Leisure -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History.
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| ISBN |
0910251355 |
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