Porter S Spirit Of The Times
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Porter S Spirit Of The Times
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language : en
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Release Date : 1857
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William T Porter And The Spirit Of The Times
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Author : Norris Wilson Yates
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
William T Porter And The Spirit Of The Times written by Norris Wilson Yates and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with American wit and humor categories.
Baseball Before We Knew It
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Author : David Block
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2006-03-01
Baseball Before We Knew It written by David Block and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
It may be America?s game, but no one seems to know how or when baseball really started. Theories abound, myths proliferate, but reliable information has been in short supply?until now, when Baseball before We Knew It brings fresh new evidence of baseball?s origins into play. David Block looks into the early history of the game and of the 150-year-old debate about its beginnings. He tackles one stubborn misconception after another, debunking the enduring belief that baseball descended from the English game of rounders and revealing a surprising new explanation for the most notorious myth of all?the Abner Doubleday?Cooperstown story. ø Block?s book takes readers on an exhilarating journey through the centuries in search of clues to the evolution of our modern National Pastime. Among his startling discoveries is a set of long-forgotten baseball rules from the 1700s. Block evaluates the originality and historical significance of the Knickerbocker rules of 1845, revisits European studies on the ancestry of baseball which indicate that the game dates back hundreds, if not thousands of years, and assembles a detailed history of games and pastimes from the Middle Ages onward that contributed to baseball?s development. In its thoroughness and reach, and its extensive descriptive bibliography of early baseball sources, this book is a unique and invaluable resource?a comprehensive, reliable, and readable account of baseball before it was America?s game.
William T Porter And The Spirit Of The Times
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Author : Norris Wilson Yates
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-01-01
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Jolly Fellows
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Author : Richard Stott
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2009-09-21
Jolly Fellows written by Richard Stott and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-21 with History categories.
“Jolly fellows,” a term that gained currency in the nineteenth century, referred to those men whose more colorful antics included brawling, heavy drinking, gambling, and playing pranks. Reforms, especially the temperance movement, stigmatized such behavior, but pockets of jolly fellowship continued to flourish throughout the country. Richard Stott scrutinizes and analyzes this behavior to appreciate its origins and meaning. Stott finds that male behavior could be strikingly similar in diverse locales, from taverns and boardinghouses to college campuses and sporting events. He explores the permissive attitudes that thrived in such male domains as the streets of New York City, California during the gold rush, and the Pennsylvania oil fields, arguing that such places had an important influence on American society and culture. Stott recounts how the cattle and mining towns of the American West emerged as centers of resistance to Victorian propriety. It was here that unrestrained male behavior lasted the longest, before being replaced with a new convention that equated manliness with sobriety and self-control. Even as the number of jolly fellows dwindled, jolly themes flowed into American popular culture through minstrelsy, dime novels, and comic strips. Jolly Fellows proposes a new interpretation of nineteenth-century American culture and society and will inform future work on masculinity during this period.
Race Horse Men
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Author : Katherine C. Mooney
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2014-05-19
Race Horse Men written by Katherine C. Mooney and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-19 with History categories.
Katherine C. Mooney recaptures the sights, sensations, and illusions of America's first mass spectator sport. Her central characters are not the elite white owners of slaves and thoroughbreds but the black jockeys, grooms, and horse trainers who called themselves race horse men and made the racetrack run--until Jim Crow drove them from their jobs.
The Horse Of America In His Derivation History And Development
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Author : John Hankins Wallace
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
The Horse Of America In His Derivation History And Development written by John Hankins Wallace and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Horse breeding categories.
Wallace S Monthly
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
Wallace S Monthly written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with Horse racing categories.
Manifest And Other Destinies
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Author : Stephanie LeMenager
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2004-01-01
Manifest And Other Destinies written by Stephanie LeMenager and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Manifest and Other Destinies critiques Manifest Destiny?s exclusive claim as an explanatory national story in order to rethink the meaning and boundaries of the West and of the United States? national identity. Stephanie LeMenager considers the American West before it became a trusted symbol of U.S. national character or a distinct literary region in the later nineteenth century, back when the West was undeniably many wests, defined by international economic networks linking diverse territories and peoples from the Caribbean to the Pacific coast. Many nineteenth-century novelists, explorers, ideologues, and humorists imagined the United States? destiny in what now seem unfamiliar terms, conceiving of geopolitical configurations or possible worlds at odds with the land hunger and ?providential? mission most clearly associated with Manifest Destiny. Manifest and Other Destinies draws from an archive of this literature and rhetoric to offer a creative rereading of national and regional borders. LeMenager addresses both canonical and lesser-known U.S. writers who shared an interest in western environments that resisted settlement, including deserts, rivers, and oceans, and who used these challenging places to invent a postwestern cultural criticism in the nineteenth century. Le Menager highlights the doubts and self-reckonings that developed alongside expansionist fervor and predicted contemporary concerns about the loss of cultural and human values to an emerging global order. In Manifest and Other Destinies, the American West offers the United States its first encounter with worlds at once local and international, worlds that, as time has proven, could never be entirely subordinated to the nation?s imperial desire.
Wallace S Monthly
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Author : John H. Wallace
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
Wallace S Monthly written by John H. Wallace and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with Horse racing categories.