Games We Played The Golden Age of Board and Table Games

Name: Games We Played The Golden Age of Board and Table Games
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ISBN: 9781568983974

ISBN-10: 1568983972

ISBN-13: 9781568983974

Edition: 2003

Authors: Margaret Hofer

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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 poked fun at, the culture that produced them Organized around themes such as courtship, commerce, travel, sports, and city life, The Games We Played brings together over one hundred eye-catching examples of America s rare and…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Publication date: 3/1/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 10.25" wide x 10.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English