Author: Tom Melville
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879727703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Presents an analytical explanation of why cricket failed as an American sporting institution. Devotes much attention to the rise of organized American sports immediately before and after the Civil War and interprets this phenomenon in the context of both its premodern American history as well as its development up to the First World War. The geographical focus is on the larger urban areas of the Atlantic seaboard, but other urban and rural areas are also discussed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Tented Field
Author: Tom Melville
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879727703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Presents an analytical explanation of why cricket failed as an American sporting institution. Devotes much attention to the rise of organized American sports immediately before and after the Civil War and interprets this phenomenon in the context of both its premodern American history as well as its development up to the First World War. The geographical focus is on the larger urban areas of the Atlantic seaboard, but other urban and rural areas are also discussed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879727703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Presents an analytical explanation of why cricket failed as an American sporting institution. Devotes much attention to the rise of organized American sports immediately before and after the Civil War and interprets this phenomenon in the context of both its premodern American history as well as its development up to the First World War. The geographical focus is on the larger urban areas of the Atlantic seaboard, but other urban and rural areas are also discussed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Tented Field
Author: Susan Downs Burleson
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595634230
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Share the personal letters of a family separated because of the war. Experience life in the South during the Civil War. Family members talk about the price of cotton, who has gone to war and who isn't coming home. James and Robert describe life in Army camps, battles, hospitals and in the Prisoner of War Camp, Elmira.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595634230
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Share the personal letters of a family separated because of the war. Experience life in the South during the Civil War. Family members talk about the price of cotton, who has gone to war and who isn't coming home. James and Robert describe life in Army camps, battles, hospitals and in the Prisoner of War Camp, Elmira.
Upon the Tented Field
Author: Bernard A. Olsen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
More than 300 letters, written by six men in the 14th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
More than 300 letters, written by six men in the 14th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry.
Baseball's First Inning
Author: William J. Ryczek
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786482834
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This history of America's pastime describes the evolution of baseball from early bat and ball games to its growth and acceptance in different regions of the country. Such New York clubs as the Atlantics, Excelsiors and Mutuals are a primary focus, serving as examples of how the sport became more sophisticated and popular. The author compares theories about many of baseball's "inventors," exploring the often fascinating stories of several of baseball's oldest founding myths. The impact of the Civil War on the sport is discussed and baseball's unsteady path to becoming America's national game is analyzed at length.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786482834
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This history of America's pastime describes the evolution of baseball from early bat and ball games to its growth and acceptance in different regions of the country. Such New York clubs as the Atlantics, Excelsiors and Mutuals are a primary focus, serving as examples of how the sport became more sophisticated and popular. The author compares theories about many of baseball's "inventors," exploring the often fascinating stories of several of baseball's oldest founding myths. The impact of the Civil War on the sport is discussed and baseball's unsteady path to becoming America's national game is analyzed at length.
Battle-fields of the South
Author: English Combatant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Battle-fields of the South
Battle Fields and Camp Fires
Author: Willis John Abbot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Memoirs And Correspondence of Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere
Author: Field Marshal Stapleton Cotton
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787202267
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Field Marshal Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere GCB GCH KSI PC (14 November 1773 - 21 February 1865), was a British Army officer, diplomat and politician. As a junior officer he took part in the Flanders Campaign, in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War and in the suppression of Robert Emmet’s insurrection in 1803. He commanded a cavalry brigade in Sir Arthur Wellesley’s Army before being given overall command of the cavalry in the latter stages of the Peninsular War. He went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and then Commander-in-Chief, India. In the latter role he stormed Bharatpur—a fort which previously had been deemed impregnable. This book, which was published in two volumes, represents Viscount Combermere’s memoirs in the form of a vast collection of his private papers, as collated by his third wife, Mary, Viscountess Combermere. They serve to provide an invaluable and comprehensive view of the public and private life of one of England’s most distinguished soldiers.
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787202267
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Field Marshal Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere GCB GCH KSI PC (14 November 1773 - 21 February 1865), was a British Army officer, diplomat and politician. As a junior officer he took part in the Flanders Campaign, in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War and in the suppression of Robert Emmet’s insurrection in 1803. He commanded a cavalry brigade in Sir Arthur Wellesley’s Army before being given overall command of the cavalry in the latter stages of the Peninsular War. He went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and then Commander-in-Chief, India. In the latter role he stormed Bharatpur—a fort which previously had been deemed impregnable. This book, which was published in two volumes, represents Viscount Combermere’s memoirs in the form of a vast collection of his private papers, as collated by his third wife, Mary, Viscountess Combermere. They serve to provide an invaluable and comprehensive view of the public and private life of one of England’s most distinguished soldiers.
School Singer
Author: James Henry Fillmore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Reminiscences of a Soldier
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368731238
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368731238
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.