Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Every Boy's Book of Games, Sports, and Diversions
Author: A List of Books for Boys and Girls in the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Baseball Before We Knew It
Author: David BlockPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803262553
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
It may be America?s game, but no one seems to know how or when baseball really started. Theories abound, myths proliferate, but reliable information has been in short supply?until now, when Baseball before We Knew It brings fresh new evidence of baseball?s origins into play. David Block looks into the early history of the game and of the 150-year-old debate about its beginnings. He tackles one stubborn misconception after another, debunking the enduring belief that baseball descended from the English game of rounders and revealing a surprising new explanation for the most notorious myth of all?the Abner Doubleday?Cooperstown story. ø Block?s book takes readers on an exhilarating journey through the centuries in search of clues to the evolution of our modern National Pastime. Among his startling discoveries is a set of long-forgotten baseball rules from the 1700s. Block evaluates the originality and historical significance of the Knickerbocker rules of 1845, revisits European studies on the ancestry of baseball which indicate that the game dates back hundreds, if not thousands of years, and assembles a detailed history of games and pastimes from the Middle Ages onward that contributed to baseball?s development. In its thoroughness and reach, and its extensive descriptive bibliography of early baseball sources, this book is a unique and invaluable resource?a comprehensive, reliable, and readable account of baseball before it was America?s game.
Bibliotheca piscatoria a catal. of books on angling, the fisheries and fish-culture, by T. Westwood & T. Satchell. [With] A list of books to supplement the Bibliotheca piscatoria
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Author: Thomas WestwoodBibliotheca Piscatoria; A Catalogue of Books on Angling, The Fisheries and Fish-Culture
Author: Robert Bright MarstonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385306353
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
The Athenaeum
Author: The American Catalogue
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
American national trade bibliography.
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Bibliotheca Piscatoria
Author: Thomas WestwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fish culture
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Playful Visions
Author: Meredith A. BakPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262538717
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The kaleidoscope, the stereoscope, and other nineteenth-century optical toys analyzed as “new media” of their era, provoking anxieties similar to our own about children and screens. In the nineteenth century, the kaleidoscope, the thaumatrope, the zoetrope, the stereoscope, and other optical toys were standard accessories of a middle-class childhood, used both at home and at school. In Playful Visions, Meredith Bak argues that the optical toys of the nineteenth century were the “new media” of their era, teaching children to be discerning consumers of media—and also provoking anxieties similar to contemporary worries about children's screen time. Bak shows that optical toys—which produced visual effects ranging from a moving image to the illusion of depth—established and reinforced a new understanding of vision as an interpretive process. At the same time, the expansion of the middle class as well as education and labor reforms contributed to a new notion of childhood as a time of innocence and play. Modern media culture and the emergence of modern Western childhood are thus deeply interconnected. Drawing on extensive archival research, Bak discusses, among other things, the circulation of optical toys, and the wide visibility gained by their appearance as printed templates and textual descriptions in periodicals; expanding conceptions of literacy, which came to include visual acuity; and how optical play allowed children to exercise a sense of visual mastery. She examines optical toys alongside related visual technologies including chromolithography—which inspired both chromatic delight and chromophobia. Finally, considering the contemporary use of optical toys in advertising, education, and art, Bak analyzes the endurance of nineteenth-century visual paradigms.