People of Prowess

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Sport, Leisure, and Labor in Early Anglo-America

Authors: Nancy L. Struna

Publisher: University of Illinois Press · Published: 1996

Pages: 271

Categories: Business & Economics / Industries / Service, History / United States / General, History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Social Science / General, Sports & Recreation / General, Sports & Recreation / History, Sports & Recreation / Cultural & Social Aspects, Sports & Recreation / Business Aspects

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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.

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