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9780252065521 Academic Inspection Copy

People of Prowess

Sport, Leisure, and Labor in Early Anglo-America
  • ISBN-13: 9780252065521
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Nancy L. Struna
  • Price: AUD $51.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 15/03/1996
  • Format: Paperback 288 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Sport & leisure industries [KNSP]
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Prowess--extraordinary skill and ability, especially in sports--has always been important to Americans, even in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Nancy L. Struna explores the significance, meaning, and structure of competitive matches and displays of physical prowess for both men and women in colonial culture. Engrossingly written for the general reader as well as sport and leisure historians, People of Prowess is a pioneering work that explores a rarely examined area of colonial history and society.
''A first-rate book, one that will immediately be hailed as the history of 'sports' for this era.'' -- Benjamin G. Rader, author of American Sports
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