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Sports and Games of the 18th and 19th Centuries Robert Crego. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003.
All of us who have ever played any kind of game have probably wondered what other people in other cultures are playing and how they are playing it. Now we have the answer, at least with our ancestors and their contemporaries. Crego limits himself to the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries because those were the periods when Great Britain was at her most powerful and influential as an industrial power, and...