Puritans at Play: Leisure and Recreation in Colonial New England - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9781403972125ISBN-10:1403972125UPC:9781403972125Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, Social HistoryBook Topic:State & Local, Colonial Period (1600-1775)Size:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SCME0C45D1
Puritans at Play: Leisure and Recreation in Colonial New England
For over four centuries, "Puritan" has been a synonym for dour, joyless, and repressed. In the tenth anniversary edition of Puritans at Play, Bruce Daniels reappraises the accuracy of this grim portrait by examining leisure and recreation in Colonial and Revolutionary New England. Chapters on music, dinner parties, dancing, sex, alcohol, taverns, and sports are presented in a lively style that...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9781403972125ISBN-10:1403972125UPC:9781403972125Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, Social HistoryBook Topic:State & Local, Colonial Period (1600-1775)Size:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SCME0C45D1
Bruce C. Daniels, Professor of History at Texas Tech University, is a specialist on colonial and Revolutionary New England and on international views of American history. He is a past president of the Canadian Association for American Studies and in the spring of 2005 was the Nikolai Sivachev Distinguished Fulbright Chair at Moscow State University
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
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10th Anniversary Edition
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