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Sporting cultures, 1650-1850 /
"In the eighteenth century sport as we know it emerged as a definable social activity. Hunting and other country sports became the source of significant innovations in visual art; racing and boxing generated important subcultures; and sport's impact on good health permeated medical, histor...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Classical Lineages; 1 What Is Sport? Arts of Rural Sport and the Art of Poetry, 1650â#x80;#x93;1800; 2 Funeral Games: Ludic Events, Imperial Violence, Authorial Encounters; 3 Fencing and the Market in Aristocratic Masculinity; Part Two: Sporting Animals and Their Uses; 4 Turf Wars: Violence, Politics, and the Newmarket Riot of 1751; 5 Animals as Heroes of the Hunt; 6 Horse Racing in Early Colonial Algeria: From Anglophilia to Arabomania; Part Three: The Mediation of Sports.
- 7 Sport and the Body Politic: Athletic Competitions in Rousseauâ#x80;#x99;s Republican Theory8 Writing Fighting/Fighting Writing: Jon Badcock and the Conflicted Nature of Sports Journalism in the Regency; 9 At Play in the Mountains: The Development of British Mountaineering in the Romantic Period; Part Four: The Sporting Body; 10 Sports, Recreation, and Medicine in Sixteenth- to Eighteenth-Century Italy and France; 11 Healing Hysteric Bodies: Women and Physical Exercise in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
- 12 â#x80;#x9C;The Physical Powers of Manâ#x80;#x9D;: The Emergence of Physical Training in the Eighteenth Century13 What Is Training?; Coda â#x80;#x93; Pilgrim, Pundit, Photographer, Spy: The Ambiguous Origins of Himalayan Mountaineering; Bibliography; Contributors; Index.