I might have subtitled this reflection: “what you never learned about school at school.” In a famous passage of his History of the Peloponnesian War, the Greek general and historian Thucydides ...

Notes on contributors -- 1. Introduction : process and context / Chris Rojek, Susan M. Shaw and A.J. Veal -- pt. 1. Origins -- 2. Leisure, culture and civilization ...

Introduction: the view from fantasyland to main street, U.S.A. -- Inventing the frontier of leisure: Charles Fletcher Lummis and the creation of the "Great Southwest" -- The city of leisure: the ...