The allure of sports in Western Culture / edited by John Zilcosky and Marlo A. Burks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zilcosky, John, editor.

Burks, Marlo A., 1986- editor.

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Social aspects.

Sports.

Sports--History.

History.

Civilization, Western.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages)

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I: Introduction; Introduction: The Allure of Sports; Part II: Theoretical Perspectives; 1 Sports/Allure; 2 "Allure" Constrained by "Ethics"? How Athletic Events Have Engaged Their Spectators; Part III: The Ancient World; 3 The Fading Allure of Greek Athletics; 4 Wrestling, or the Art of Disentangling Bodies; 5 The Allure and Ethics of Ancient Aesthetics: Hellenism in the Modern Olympic Movement; Part IV: Modern Europe; 6 Attractive or Repugnant? Foot Races in Eighteenth-Century Germany and Britain.

7 A Well-Trained Community: Gymnastics for the German Nation8 Importing a German Kampfsport: The Reception and Practice of Japanese Martial Arts in Interwar Germany; 9 The Ethics and Allure of the Foul in Football; Part V: Coda; 10 Swimming; Contributors; Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Zilcosky, John. Allure of Sports in Western Culture.

ISBN:

1487519605

9781487519605

Publisher Number:

40029622299

Access Restriction:

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