Why a social history of leisure?
Traditional society and the place of leisure
Leisure and reform, 1500-1700
Anglo-American leisure on the eve of industrialization, 1660-1800
Industrialization, work and play, 1780-1850
Quest for leisure, 1820-1900
Rational recreation and the Victorian city, 1830-1900
Gender and generation in 19th-century leisure
Leisure for the masses, the commercialization of entertainment in the 19th century
Participants and spectators, modernization of sport as leisure
Dilemmas of leisure and public policy, 1900-1940
Consumer leisure and the 20th-century suburb
Working-class and youth at play in the 20th century
Looking forward from the recent past.
