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Author : Joseph Strutt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England written by Joseph Strutt and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emma Griffin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780197263211
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (632 download)
Download or read book England's Revelry written by Emma Griffin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because the poor lacked land of their own, public spaces were needed for their sports and pastimes.
Author : Joseph Strutt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England written by Joseph Strutt and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Salter
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 145324381X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book A Sport and a Pastime written by James Salter and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing novel and “tour de force” about a love affair in postwar France from the iconic author of All That Is (The New York Times Book Review). Twenty-year-old Yale dropout Phillip Dean is traveling Europe aimlessly in a borrowed car with little money. When he stops for a few days in a church-quiet town near Dijon, he meets Anne-Marie Costallat, a young shop assistant. The two begin an affair both carnal and innocent, and she quickly becomes to him the real France, its beating heart and an object of pure longing. James Salter, author of Light Years and the memoir Burning the Days, was an essential voice in the evolution of late twentieth-century prose, a stylist on par with Updike and Roth who won the PEN/Faulkner Award for his collection Dusk and Other Stories. One of the first great American novels to speak frankly of human desire free of guilt and shame, A Sport and a Pastime inspired Reynolds Price to call it “as nearly perfect as any American fiction I know.” This ebook edition features an illustrated biography of James Salter including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
Author : P. H. Ditchfield
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs written by P. H. Ditchfield and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs" is a historical treatise on the various sports and games that have been played in England over the centuries. The book aims to describe, in simple language, the holiday festivals as they occurred in each month of the year; and the sports, games, pastimes, and customs associated with these rural feasts. The games were those played most in the English villages and the author hopes to rekindle interest in what he terms, "the best features of old village life." English customs such as exchanging gifts on New Year's Day, fox hunts in February, Easter and Christmas traditions, as well as different country dances and sports.
Author : Jehoshaphat Aspin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ancient Customs, Sports, and Pastimes, of the English written by Jehoshaphat Aspin and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Hampson Ditchfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs written by Peter Hampson Ditchfield and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Compton Reeves
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780750914987
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (149 download)
Download or read book Pleasures and Pastimes in Medieval England written by Compton Reeves and published by Alan Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compton Reeves examines how people from all classes of medieval English society enjoyed themselves when not engaged in daily chores. Reeves' other works include Lancastrian Englishmen and The Marcher Lords
Author : Stefan Szymanski
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815782599
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (825 download)
Download or read book National Pastime written by Stefan Szymanski and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Szymanski and Zimbalist pay special attention to the rich and complex evolution of baseball from its beginnings in America, and they trace modern soccer from its foundation in England through its subsequent expansion across the world.
Author : Edward Brooke-Hitching
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501115146
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Fox Tossing written by Edward Brooke-Hitching and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in 2015 in Great Britain by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd."
Author : Katharina Bonzel
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496218248
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book National Pastimes written by Katharina Bonzel and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports have long fascinated filmmakers from Hollywood and beyond, from Bend It Like Beckham to Chariots of Fire to Rocky. Though sports films are diverse in their approach, style, and storytelling modes, National Pastimes discloses the common emotional and visual cues that belie each sports film's underlying nationalistic impulses. Katharina Bonzel unravels the delicate matrix of national identity, sports, and emotion through the lens of popular sports films in comparative national contexts, demonstrating in the process how popular culture provides a powerful vehicle for the development and maintenance of identities of place across a range of national cinemas. As films reflect the ways in which myths of nation and national belonging change over time, they are implicated in important historical moments, from Cold War America to the class dynamics of 1980s Thatcherite Britain to the fragmented sense of nation in post-unification Germany. Bonzel shows how sports films provide a means for renegotiating the boundaries of national identity in an accessible, engaging form. National Pastimes opens up new ways of understanding how films appeal to the emotions, using myth-like constructions of the past to cultivate spectators' engagement with historical events.
Author : Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard
Publisher : Book*hug Press
ISBN 13 : 9781771663502
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (635 download)
Download or read book Sports and Pastimes written by Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard and published by Book*hug Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Translated by Aimee Wall. Inspired by Erik Satie's work of the same name, SPORTS AND PASTIMES is the first novel by acclaimed Montreal playwright and author Jean-Philippe Baril Gu rard to appear in English. This fast-paced story follows the daily life, at once empty and overloaded, of a group of friends who spend all their energy trying to distract themselves with huge hits of endorphins, art and various substances, navigating pleasure and boredom, the extraordinary and the banal, as (more or less) worthy representatives of the best and worst of what their era has to offer. Consider a mashup of "Girls" and "Less Than Zero" and you are pretty close to the fun and games of SPORTS AND PASTIMES. "The novel of rich, apathetic youth has been done so often that it has almost becomea genre of its own, but rarely has it been written in Quebec with such mastery of itscodes as by Jean-Philippe Baril Gu rard."--Dominic Tardif "If the body is an obstacle to feelings or emotions, we must emphasize the strength of the interiority of the characters."--Jeremi Perrault
Author : Robert Colls
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198208332
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (982 download)
Download or read book This Sporting Life written by Robert Colls and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Sporting Life offers an important view of England's cultural history through its sporting pursuits, carrying the reader to a match or a hunt or a fight, viscerally drawing a portrait of the sounds and smells, and showing that sport has been as important in defining British culture as gender, politics, education, class, and religion.
Author : Elliott J. Gorn
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252071843
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (718 download)
Download or read book A Brief History of American Sports written by Elliott J. Gorn and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elliott J. Gorn and Warren Goldstein show us where our games and pastimes came from, how they developed, and what they have meant to Americans. The great heroes of baseball and football are here, as well as the dramatic moments of boxing and basketball. Beyond this, the authors show us how sports fit into the larger contours of our past. A Brief History of American Sports reveals that from colonial times to the present, sports have been central to American culture, and a profound expression of who we are.
Author : Jack McConnell
Publisher : Lyons Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585741151
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (411 download)
Download or read book The American Boy's Book of Sports and Games written by Jack McConnell and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1864, this book presents a lively portrait of indoor and outdoor amusements in the 19th century--from games played with homemade toys to baseball as a new pastime. Also included are chapters on card games, arithmetical and scientific stumpers, and puzzles. Over 1,000 illustrations.
Author : Neil Wigglesworth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113630651X
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of English Sport written by Neil Wigglesworth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work uses original material from clubs and sporting organizations to illuminate the evolution of sporting activity nation-wide. It relates these documents to themes such as commercialism and club fortunes. It concludes by discussing the outlook for English sport.
Author : Dave Zirin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439175748
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Bad Sports written by Dave Zirin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A THOUGHT-PROVOKING LOOK AT THE BIG BUSINESS AND IMMORAL PRACTICES BEHIND PROFESSIONAL SPORTS BY ACCLAIMED SPORTSWRITER DAVE ZIRIN, HAILED AS THE “CONSCIENCE OF AMERICAN SPORTSWRITING” (THE WASHINGTON POST ) The fastest-growing sector of today’s sports audience is the alienated fan. Complaints abound: from inflated ticket prices, $6 hot dogs, and $9 beers to owners endlessly demanding new multimillion-dollar stadiums funded by public tax dollars. Those sitting in the owners’ boxes are increasingly placing profit over players’ performances and fan loyalty. Bad Sports cuts through the hype and bombast to zero in on tales of abusive, dictatorial owners who move their teams thousands of miles away from their fan base, use their stadiums as religious and political platforms, or hold communities ransom for millions of dollars of taxpayer money to fund their gargantuan stadiums. As the multibillion-dollar sports-industrial complex continues to lumber along, Dave Zirin is the voice in the wilderness, speaking out for the common fan with a tough, passionate, and intelligent voice that will remind readers that there is more to sportswriting than glowing athlete profiles.
