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Guttmann, Allen.

Sports : the first five millennia / Allen Guttmann. - Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, c2004. - 448 p. ; ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN: 1558494707 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2004013506

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA478772 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013028822 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sports--History.
Sports--Social aspects.
Sports--Cross-cultural studies.
Sports--Histoire.
Sports--Aspect social.
Sports--?? tudes transculturelles.

LC Class. No.: GV 571 / .G88 2004