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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Commercial leisure"”.
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Commercial leisure in Halifax 1750-1950. The development of commercialized leisure provision in a northern industrial town.
This thesis investigates the development of commercial leisure in a northern community, Halifax, over a period of 200 years. It examines a range of leisure pursuits including the public house, theatre and sports and traces their development during a period of population growth and industrialization …
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The Retreats of Reconstruction: Race, Leisure, and the Politics of Segregation at the New Jersey Shore, 1865--1920
… and racial segregation in the public and commercial leisure spaces of the New Jersey shore during the Reconstruction era. Moving beyond issues of identity, racial violence, and labor disputes, I show how Jim Crow unfolded and operated in the post-Civil War North by emphasizing the …
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Sacred Spaces, Public Places: The Intersection of Religion and Space in Three Chicago Communities, 1869-1932
… of the suburban ethos, the rise of commercial leisure, the movement of Protestant values to the periphery of public life, and many of the attendant issues related to urbanization and secularization, including class, gender, and rising pluralism in the public sphere. During the …