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Puritans at Play : Leisure and Recreation in Colonial New England
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Puritans at Play : Leisure and Recreation in Colonial New England Paperback - 1996

by Daniels, Bruce C

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This cultural history of colonial New England will forever change the way readers think about America's early "Puritans". Daniels reappraises the accuracy of this grim portrait by examining leisure and recreational actitives, including music, dinner parties, sex, alcohol, taverns, and sports.

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  • Title Puritans at Play : Leisure and Recreation in Colonial New England
  • Author Daniels, Bruce C
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 271
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Palgrave Macmillan, New York
  • Date 1996-09-11
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 399386-6
  • ISBN 9780312161248 / 0312161247
  • Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.52 x 5.54 x 0.73 in (21.64 x 14.07 x 1.85 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 17th Century
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Cultural Region: New England
  • Library of Congress subjects Puritans - Recreation - New England -, Puritans - Recreation - New England -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009455651
  • Dewey Decimal Code 790.190

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-264) and index.

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For over four centuries "puritan" has been a synonym for the dour, the joyless, the repressed.

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