Puritans at Play, Tenth Anniversary Edition: Leisure and Recreation in Colonial New England

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For over four centuries, "Puritan" has been a synonym for dour, joyless, and repressed. In the tenth anniversary edition ofPuritans at Play, Bruce Daniels reappraises the accuracy of this grim portrait by examining leisure and recreation in Colonial ... Read more
For over four centuries, "Puritan" has been a synonym for dour, joyless, and repressed. In the tenth anniversary edition ofPuritans at Play, Bruce Daniels reappraises the accuracy of this grim portrait by examining leisure and recreation in Colonial and Revolutionary New England. Chapters on music, dinner parties, dancing, sex, alcohol, taverns, and sports are presented in a lively style that makes this book as entertaining as it is illuminating. Less

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File size8.5 X 5.51 X 0.72 in
Print pages271
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Publication date September 17, 2005
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781403972125
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Paul Ginsborg is Professor of Contemporary European History in the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, University of Florence. His previous publications include Daniele Manin and the Venetian Revolutio...

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