Sports : the first five millennia / Allen Guttmann.
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TextPublication details: Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, c2004.Description: 448 p. ; ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 1558494707 (cloth : alk. paper)
- GV 571 .G88 2004
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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.
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