Patrick Flanagan: 4 books

Do you remember the first TV you ever saw, the Space Race, sonic booms, JFK, men on the Moon, the Cuban Missile Crissis, Friendship 7 as well as numerous events and inventions from the 1950's and 60's? Well, if you answered yes to any of the above, you're going to love reading Ma's Cow. The...

Essays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies of games. Even as the field of game studies has flourished, critical historical studies of games have lagged behind other areas of research. Histories have generally been...

Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...

Charting the evolution of the port cities of Atlantic Spain and Portugal over four centuries, this book examines the often dynamic interaction between the large privileged ports of Lisbon, Seville and Cadiz (the Metropoles) and the smaller ports of, among others, Oporto, Corunna and Santander (the...