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Pages 316-334 | Published online: 07 Mar 2007
 

Gary Cross, A Social History of Leisure Since 1600 (State College, PA: Venture Publishing, Inc., 1990). Pp.297. $27.95. ISBN 0–910251–35–5.

Hugh David, Heroes, Mavericks and Bounders (London: Michael Joseph, 1991). Pp.xiv + 306. £18.99. ISBN 0–7181–3264–5.

Stuart A. Marks, Southern Hunting in Black and White: Nature, History and Ritual in a Carolina Community (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991). Pp.xviii + 327. $24.95. ISBN 0–691–09452–7.

John Cummins, The Hound and the Hawk: The Art of Medieval Hunting (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988). Appendices: illustrations: bibliography. Pp.306. $35.00. ISBN 0–312–02716–8.

Geoffrey Page, Hear The Boat Sing: The History of Thames Rowing Club and Tideway Rowing (London: The Kingswood Press, 1991). Pp.240. £30.00.

Alan Trengove, The Story of the Davis Cup (London: Stanley Paul, 1991). Pp.677. £10.99 (paper). ISBN 0 09 174660 4.

Marion K. Stell, Half The Race. A History of Australian Women in Sport (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1991). Pp.270; photographs; endnotes; index. $A39.95.

R. Roberts and J.S. Olson, Winning is the Only Thing: Sports in America Since 1945 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991). Pp.xii + 258. $18.95 (hardcover); $11.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–8018–3830–4.

Warren Goldstein, Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989). Pp. i + 182.

Stephen G. Miller, Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, second and expanded edition, 1991). Pp.xii + 227. $37.50 (cloth), $12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 520 07508 0.

Ann Fabian, Card Sharps, Dream Books and Bucket Shops: Gambling in Nineteenth Century America (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1990). Pp.250. ISBN 0–8014–2501–8.

Union Nationale des Clubs Universitaires, Union Syndicate des Journalistes Sportifs Français, Les Cahiers de l'Université Sportive d'Été, No. 4, ‘Le club sportif au quotidien: mythes, réalités, projets’ (Bordeaux: Maison des Sciences de l'Homme d'Aquitaine, 1989). Pp.210. FF98. ISBN 2–85892–131–8.

No.5, ‘Les hommes du club, dirigeants & techniciens: responsables ou ôtages?’ (Bordeaux: Maison des Sciences de l'Homme d'Aquitaine, 1990). Pp.202. FF100. ISBN 2–85892–141–5.

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