Constructing Leisure: Historical and Philosophical Debates

✍ Scribed by Karl Spracklen (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 232
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Philosophy of Leisure....Pages 14-32
Leisure and Human Nature....Pages 33-49
Leisure in Classical History....Pages 50-66
Leisure, Islam and Byzantium....Pages 67-83
Leisure in the Middle Ages....Pages 84-101
Leisure in Japan, China and India....Pages 102-120
Early Modern Leisure....Pages 121-139
Leisure in Modernity....Pages 140-156
Leisure in Historiography....Pages 157-174
Future Histories of Leisure....Pages 175-192
Conclusions....Pages 193-198
Back Matter....Pages 199-224

✦ Subjects

Cultural History;Sociology of Sport and Leisure;Social History;Social Philosophy;Popular Science, general;Cultural Studies

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