People of prowess
Subtitle: sport, leisure, and labor in early Anglo-America
By: Nancy L. Struna.
Series: Sport and society
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Sports -- United States -- History -- 17th century.; Sports -- United States -- History -- 18th century.; Sports -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 17th century.; Sports -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century.; Leisure -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 17th century.; Leisure -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century.; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-258) and index.
Table of contents: title: Sport in the old world; title: A grand scheme; title: Change and persistence in colonial sporting life, 1620s-1670s; title: Sports and colonial popular culture, 1680s-1730s; title: Sport and rank making in the Chesapeake; title: Mid-eighteenth-century sporting styles; title: Taverns and sports; title: Upper- and middle-rank "leisure" and sports; title: Epilogue : people of prowess.