Hard at Play

by Grover, Kathryn

• ISBN13: 9780870237935
• ISBN10: 0870237934
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Table of Contents

Introduction: Are We Having Fun Yet?	p. 1
Recreation in a Christian America: Ocean Grove and Asbury Park, New Jersey, 1869-1914	p. 8
"The Germans Take Care of Our Celebrations": Middle-Class Americans Appropriate German Ethnic Culture in Buffalo in the 1850s	p. 39
Roller-skating toward Industrialism	p. 61
American Angling: The Rise of Urbanism and the Romance of the Rod and Reel	p. 77
"Another Branch of Manly Sport": American Rifle Games, 1840-1900	p. 93
A Room with a Viewer: The Parlor Stereoscope, Comic Stereographs, and the Psychic Role of Play in Victorian America	p. 112
Ladies of Leisure: Domestic Photography in the Nineteenth Century	p. 139
Children's Play in American Autobiographies, 1820-1914	p. 161
Fox and Geese in the School Yard: Play and America's Country Schools, 1870-1940	p. 188
The Natural Limits of Unstructured Play, 1880-1914	p. 210
A Glossary of Outdoor Games	p. 227
Contributors	p. 251
Index	p. 253
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