Sport. a Cultural History / Richard D. Mandell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mandell, Richard D., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social history.

Sports--Social aspects--History.

Sports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1984]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Studies the cultural history of sport in the lives of all people from before the Greeks to the late 1900's. Looks at the Greek influence to the pre-industrial high culture to sport in Europe, to the spreading to America.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

1. Sport Before High Culture

2. Sport Before the Greeks

3. Greece

4. Spread of the Taste

5. Sport in Pre-Industrial High Culture

6. Europe, 500-1750

7. England: Land of Sport

8. Induced Sport

9. American Sport to the 1920s

10. The Modern Olympic Games

11. American Sport in Recent Times

12. The Olympic Games, 1936-1980

13. Sport and Society in the Late Twentieth Century

14. Joyous Sport, Beautiful Sport

Bibliographical Essays

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89115-6

OCLC:

1100444604