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America Learns To Play A History Of Popular Recreation 1607 1940
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Author : Foster Rhea Dulles
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-22
America Learns To Play A History Of Popular Recreation 1607 1940 written by Foster Rhea Dulles and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-22 with categories.
This lively history of American leisure covers everything from colonial pastimes like hunting and fishing to the rise of professional sports in the early 20th century. Dulles's engaging style and meticulous research make this book a joy to read for anyone interested in the social history of the United States. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
America Learns To Play
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Author : Foster Rhea Dulles
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1952
America Learns To Play written by Foster Rhea Dulles and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with Amusements categories.
A History Of Recreation
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Author : Foster Rhea Dulles
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
A History Of Recreation written by Foster Rhea Dulles and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Recreation categories.
A History Of Recreation
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Author : Foster Rhea Dulles (historicus)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
A History Of Recreation written by Foster Rhea Dulles (historicus) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Recreation categories.
America Learns To Play
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Author : Foster Rhea Dulles
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
America Learns To Play written by Foster Rhea Dulles and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with Amusements categories.
Century Of The Leisured Masses
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Author : David George Surdam
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-02
Century Of The Leisured Masses written by David George Surdam and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-02 with Business & Economics categories.
American living standards improved considerably between 1900 and 2000. While most observers focus on gains in per-capita income as a measure of economic well-being, economists have used other measures of well-being: height, weight, and longevity. The increased amount of leisure time per week and across people's lifetimes, however, has been an unsung aspect of the improved standard of living in America. In Century of the Leisured Masses, David George Surdam explores the growing presence of leisure activities in Americans' lives and how this development came out throughout the twentieth century. Most Americans have gone from working fifty-five or more hours per week to working fewer than forty, although many Americans at the top rungs of the economic ladder continue to work long hours. Not only do more Americans have more time to devote to other activities, they are able to enjoy higher-quality leisure. New forms of leisure have given Americans more choices, better quality, and greater convenience. For instance, in addition to producing music themselves, they can now listen to the most talented musicians when and where they want. Television began as black and white on small screens; within fifty years, Americans had a cast of dozens of channels to choose from. They could also purchase favorite shows and movies to watch at their convenience. Even Americans with low incomes enjoyed television and other new forms of leisure. This growth of leisure resulted from a combination of growing productivity, better health, and technology. American workers became more productive and chose to spend their improved productivity and higher wages by consuming more, taking more time off, and enjoying better working conditions. By century's end, relatively few Americans were engaged in arduous, dangerous, and stultifying occupations. The reign of tyranny on the shop floor, in retail shops, and in offices was mitigated; many Americans could even enjoy leisure activities during work hours. Failure to consider the gains in leisure time and leisure consumption understates the gains in American living standards. With Century of the Leisured Masses, Surdam has comprehensively documented and examined the developments in this important marker of well-being throughout the past century.
Respectable And Disreputable
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Author : Jeffrey Benton
language : en
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Release Date : 2013-07-01
Respectable And Disreputable written by Jeffrey Benton and has been published by NewSouth Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-01 with History categories.
Respectable and Disreputable describes how Montgomerians spent their increasing leisure time during the four decades preceding the Civil War. Everyday activities included gambling, drinking, sporting, hunting, and voluntary associations -- military, literary, self-improvement, fraternal, and civic. The book also includes seasonal activities -- religious and national holidays, fairs, balls, horse racing, and summering at mineral springs. Commercial entertainment, which became more prominent in the late antebellum period, included theater, opera, circuses, and minstrel shows. Historian Jeffrey Benton describes not only those everyday, seasonal, and commercial activities, but also shows how antebellum society debated the moral and philosophical questions of how leisure time should be spent. Woven throughout the book are comparisons between Montgomery and other cities and towns in antebellum America. Although the United States may have been increasingly divided economically, on rural-urban experiences, and of course on the issue of slavery, it seems that antebellum Americans -- at least those living in or with easy access to urban areas -- shared very similar leisure time activities.
Working At Play
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Author : Cindy Sondik Aron
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2001
Working At Play written by Cindy Sondik Aron and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
This text chronicles the history of vacationing in America since the early 19th century. It is concerned with how, when, and why vacationing came to be part of life, charting this social and cultural institution as it grew from the custom of a small elite in to a mass phenomenon
Steppin Out
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Author : Lewis A. Erenberg
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1984-11-15
Steppin Out written by Lewis A. Erenberg and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-11-15 with History categories.
The evolution of New York nightlife from the Gay Nineties through the Jazz Age was, as Lewis A. Erenberg shows, both symbol and catalyst of America's transition out of the Victorian period. Cabaret culture led the way to new styles of behavior and consumption, dissolving conventional barriers between classes, races, the sexes—even between life and art. A fabulous era of chorus girls, jazz players, lobster palaces, and hip flasks—the age of Sophie Tucker, Irene and Vernon Castle, and Gilda Gray—tangos through the pages of this ground-breaking, as well as entertaining, cultural history.
Sport And The Spirit Of Play In American Fiction
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Author : Christian K. Messenger
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 1983-05-31
Sport And The Spirit Of Play In American Fiction written by Christian K. Messenger and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-05-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this comprehensive and insightful study, Christian K. Messenger contends that American writers have always created characters at play in the sure knowledge that to be active in sport in America is to be in touch with its people, their traditions, and their fantasy lives. This is the first inclusive critical study of sport in American fiction with chapters on individual authors such as Hawthorne, Lardner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner, as well as studies of sport in the literature of the frontier and in boys' formula fiction. A work of literary criticism, Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction also draws on the cultural history of American sport and leisure and on a century of American literature.