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Category : Children's periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 908
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The Boy's Own Annual
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Category : Adventure stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Category : Adventure stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: James Silk Buckingham
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Languages : en
Pages : 920
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Languages : en
Pages : 920
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Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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The Prehistories of Baseball
Author: Seelochan Beharry
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786477970
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Baseball's roots lie deep in our ancestral past. The ancient arts of throwing (distance warfare), hitting (close quarters combat), and running (attack and retreat) were woven into the earliest forms of baseball. Early humans recognized the importance of the sun and sought to placate it with sacrificial offerings, imitating its movements and deifying it. Myths and relics of these foundational practices and beliefs were carried westward across the Old World by Indo-European peoples. Games for the early British and Continental Europeans (notably the Celts and Druids) served military, religious, social and educational needs. As the Celts and Druids came under the control of the Roman Empire, and later the Christian Church, their customs and practices, including games, fell out of favor. Despite persecution, some folk games survived the millennia under such names as "stool-ball," "tut-ball," and "base-ball." Descendants of these peoples brought their variant games to the New World where the standardization of various informal rules led to their rapid spread. Baseball, with its underlying beliefs, superstitions and practices, still brings us together with familiar and comforting rituals as we assemble under the sun.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786477970
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Baseball's roots lie deep in our ancestral past. The ancient arts of throwing (distance warfare), hitting (close quarters combat), and running (attack and retreat) were woven into the earliest forms of baseball. Early humans recognized the importance of the sun and sought to placate it with sacrificial offerings, imitating its movements and deifying it. Myths and relics of these foundational practices and beliefs were carried westward across the Old World by Indo-European peoples. Games for the early British and Continental Europeans (notably the Celts and Druids) served military, religious, social and educational needs. As the Celts and Druids came under the control of the Roman Empire, and later the Christian Church, their customs and practices, including games, fell out of favor. Despite persecution, some folk games survived the millennia under such names as "stool-ball," "tut-ball," and "base-ball." Descendants of these peoples brought their variant games to the New World where the standardization of various informal rules led to their rapid spread. Baseball, with its underlying beliefs, superstitions and practices, still brings us together with familiar and comforting rituals as we assemble under the sun.
Publisher and Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1226
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Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1226
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Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
The Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1218
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Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1218
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Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
The Lancing College Magazine
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Category : Endowed public schools (Great Britain)
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
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Category : Endowed public schools (Great Britain)
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
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Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Childhood and the Politics of Play
Author: Michelle Beissel Heath
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351392131
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Drawing evidence from transatlantic literary texts of childhood as well as from nineteenth and early twentieth century children’s and family card, board, and parlor games and games manuals, Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Childhood and the Politics of Play aims to reveal what might be thought of as "playful literary citizenship," or some of the motivations inherent in later nineteenth and early twentieth century Anglo-American play pursuits as they relate to interest in shaping citizens through investment in "good" literature. Tracing play, as a societal and historical construct, as it surfaces time and again in children’s literary texts as well as children’s literary texts as they surface time and again in situations and environments of children’s play, this book underscores how play and literature are consistently deployed in tandem in attempts to create ideal citizens – even as those ideals varied greatly and were dependent on factors such as gender, ethnicity, colonial status, and class.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351392131
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Drawing evidence from transatlantic literary texts of childhood as well as from nineteenth and early twentieth century children’s and family card, board, and parlor games and games manuals, Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Childhood and the Politics of Play aims to reveal what might be thought of as "playful literary citizenship," or some of the motivations inherent in later nineteenth and early twentieth century Anglo-American play pursuits as they relate to interest in shaping citizens through investment in "good" literature. Tracing play, as a societal and historical construct, as it surfaces time and again in children’s literary texts as well as children’s literary texts as they surface time and again in situations and environments of children’s play, this book underscores how play and literature are consistently deployed in tandem in attempts to create ideal citizens – even as those ideals varied greatly and were dependent on factors such as gender, ethnicity, colonial status, and class.
The Literary World
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Abbeys, Castles, and Ancient Halls of England and Wales
Author: John Timbs
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338216650X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338216650X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.