TY  - BOOK
AU  - Guttmann,Allen
TI  - Sports: the first five millennia 
SN  - 1558494707 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - GV 571 .G88 2004
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Amherst, Mass.
PB  - University of Massachusetts Press
KW  - Sports
KW  - History
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - ?? tudes transculturelles
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0418/200401350 6.html
ER  -