[Free and download] The Games We Played: The Golden Age of Board & Table Games
☆ Margaret Hofer ☆
| #1213968 in Books | Princeton Architectural Press | 2003-06-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 11.00 x.75 x10.50l,2.28 | File Name: 1568983972 | 176 pages |
||9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| Overview of Nineteenth Century American History through board games.|By J. Collins|Board games as we understand them in the 21st century, really began in the early nineteenth. Before then, children were really considered to be junior adults: time not spent in school was for work on the farm, or in a factory. Of course there was chess, checkers (draughts) or games like Go, an|From Publishers Weekly|You won't find Monopoly or Scrabble here, but rather The Popular Game of Broadway and Soldier Ten Pins. But some of the other names will be familiar in this vividly illustrated collection of late 19th-century and early 20th-century games
As families are rediscovering the joys and virtues of staying and entertaining at home, board games have surged in popularity indeed, sales doubled in the last year alone. this mirrors a trend in the late nineteenth century the heyday of American boards and table games when, fueled by the introduction of games coincided with a growing need for middle-class social entertainment. Then, like now, the games that best captured players imaginations mimicked, and sometimes...
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