| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 189 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Routledge guides to using historical sources |
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Routledge guides to using historical sources.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Games of History provides an understanding of how games as artefacts, textual and visual sources on games and gaming as a pastime or a "serious" activity can be used as sources for the study of history. The book's focus is on board and card games, with reference to physical games, sports and digital games as well. Offering an alternative approach to the study of history through its focus on games and gaming as historical sources, this is the ideal volume for students considering different types of sources and how they can be used for historical study, as well as students who study games as primary or secondary sources in their history projects"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Conceptual approaches to games -- Material approaches to games -- Games of culture -- Games of society -- Games of politics -- Games of metaphysics -- The gladiatorial games as a historical source -- Chess as a historical source -- Sid Meier's Civilization as a historical source. |
| Biography |
Apostolos Spanos is a professor of history at the University of Agder, Norway. His interests lie in games and gaming as historical sources, rethinking the phenomenon of innovation in historical terms, historical dimensions of time, and the use of concepts in historical studies. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed August 20, 2021). |
| Local Note |
Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis eBooks: Open Access |
| Subject |
Games -- History.
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History -- Simulation games.
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Simulation games in education.
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History -- Study and teaching.
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HISTORY / Historiography.
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HISTORY / Study & Teaching.
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Games. (OCoLC)fst00937529
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History -- Study and teaching. (OCoLC)fst00958303
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Simulation games in education. (OCoLC)fst01119162
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Spanos, Apostolos. Games of history. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 9780367358914 (DLC) 2020057601 (OCoLC)1226764194 |
| ISBN |
9780429342479 electronic book |
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0429342470 electronic book |
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9781000397390 electronic book |
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1000397394 electronic book |
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9781000397437 electronic book |
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1000397432 electronic book |
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9780367358914 hardcover |
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9780367358907 paperback |
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