ID - 79510942 TI - The Cultural Legacy of the Royal Game of the Goose PY - 2019 SN - 9789462984974 9789048535880 9462984972 9048535883 PB - Amsterdam DB - UniCat KW - Recreation. Games. Sports. Corp. expression KW - History of civilization KW - board games [game sets] KW - goose [board game] KW - anno 1500-1799 KW - anno 1400-1499 KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - Europe KW - Board games KW - Board games. KW - Goose (Game) KW - Goose (Game). KW - Gänsespiel. KW - History. KW - Europa. KW - Move games KW - Games KW - Gameboards KW - Cultural history, board games, iconography, art history, history of leisure, printing history. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:79510942 AB - The Game of the Goose is one of the oldest printed board games, dating back 400 years. It has spawned thousands of derivatives: simple race games, played with dice, on themes that mirror much of human activity. Its legacy can be traced in games of education, advertising and polemic, as well as in those of amusement and gambling - and games on new themes are still being developed. This book, by the leading international collector of the genre, is devoted to showing why the Game of the Goose is special and why it can lay claim to being the most influential of any printed game in the cultural history of Europe. Detailed study of the games reveals their historical provenance and - reversing the process - gives unusual insights into the cultures which produced them. They therefore provide rich sources for the cultural historian. This book is beautifully illustrated with more than 90 illustrations, many in color, which are integrated throughout the text. ER -