Sports : the first five millennia /

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From ancient Egyptian archery and medieval Japanese football to contemporary American baseball, sports have been shaped by - and in turn have helped shape - the culture of which it is part. This work traces this evolution across continents, cultures, and historical epochs to construct a single compr...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Guttmann, Allen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2004.
Subjects:
Sports > History.
Sports > Social aspects.
Sports > Cross-cultural studies.
Sports > Histoire.
Sports > Aspect social.
Sports > Études transculturelles.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Sports
Sports > Social aspects
Sport
Kulturvergleich
Sportgeschiedenis.
Étude transculturelle.
Aspect social.
Histoire.
Sport.
"Multi-User"
Cross-cultural studies
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preliterate peoples
  • Before the Greeks
  • Greek athletic festivals
  • Roman sports
  • Traditional Asian sports
  • European sports from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
  • "Made in England": the invention of modern sports
  • Cricket follow the flag
  • The Institutionalization of modern sports in the United States
  • Latin American: the Ingleses versus the Norteamericanos
  • Continental Europe: Imports and exports
  • Technological sports
  • Modern sports in Asia
  • "Our former colonial masters: African sports
  • Winter sports
  • The modern Olympic games
  • Resistance to modern sports
  • The survival of traditional sports
  • Instrumentalized sports
  • Modern sports as a global phenomenon
  • Coda: Postmodernism and les sports Californiens.

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