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Sport, a cultural history / [electronic resource] Richard D. Mandell.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 1984.Description: xx, 340 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 023105470X (alk. paper)
  • 9780231054706 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306/.483 19
LOC classification:
  • GV706.5 .M36 1984
Other classification:
  • 15.10
  • 76.10
  • SPO 541n
  • ZX 4400
Online resources:
Contents:
Sport before high culture -- Sport before the Greeks -- Greece -- Spread of the taste -- Sport in pre-industrial high culture -- Europe, 500-1750 -- England: land of sport -- Induced sport -- American sport to the 1920s -- The modern Olympic Games -- American sport in recent times -- The Olympic games, 1936-1980 -- Sport and society in the late twentieth century -- Joyous sport, beautiful sport.
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Bibliography: p. [305]-330.

Includes index.

Sport before high culture -- Sport before the Greeks -- Greece -- Spread of the taste -- Sport in pre-industrial high culture -- Europe, 500-1750 -- England: land of sport -- Induced sport -- American sport to the 1920s -- The modern Olympic Games -- American sport in recent times -- The Olympic games, 1936-1980 -- Sport and society in the late twentieth century -- Joyous sport, beautiful sport.

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