Entertainment, leisure and identities. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Roger Spalding and Alyson Brown.
• Other Names: Spalding, Roger; Brown, Alyson
• Contents: Animals, leisure and status: some aspects of pet-keeping in the Middle Ages / John Simons -- Molyneux -- "Munix" the dancing man / Michael Hayes -- Contemporary carnival: Blackpool and the symbolic suspension of real-life / Jill Fernie-Clark -- Policeman on the case: Early chess in Lancashire and the Preston Guardian chess column 1879-83 / Tim Harding -- Identifying the British yachtsman, 1815 to 1939 / Roger Ryan -- "Wonders in nature and art": Reynold's Museum of Curiosity and the Lime Street entertainment industry in Liverpool, 1860-1900 / Vaness Toulmin -- Popular theatre and revolutionary identity: Anarchist and communist culture in Paris, 1900-1934 / The Last Adventurers: a case study of British cinema and the creation of identity in the 1930s / Roger Spalding -- "Doing the right thing": Harry Belafonte as a political and civil rights activist / Kevern Verney.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 141 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 306.4/812; Sociology: sport & leisure; Leisure -- Great Britain -- History; Leisure -- Social aspects -- Great Britain; Amusements -- Great Britain -- History; Amusements -- Social aspects -- Great Britain; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; Amusements; Amusements -- Social aspects; Leisure; Leisure -- Social aspects; The self, ego, identity, personality; Great Britain; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781443807241; 1443807249
• Related ISBNs: 1847182364; 9781847182364
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.