Fitness in American culture
Subtitle: images of health, sport, and the body, 1830-1940
By: edited by Kathryn Grover.
Contributors: Grover, Kathryn, 1953-; Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press; Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Amherst; Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: Physical fitness -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Sports -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Physical fitness -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Sports -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers presented at a symposium held at the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum in spring, 1986.
Table of contents: title: Sport in American life / Donald J. Mrozek; title: American advertising and the reconstruction of the body, 1880-1930 / T.J. Jackson Lears; title: Iron therapy and tonics / Michael R. Harris; title: Eating to win / James C. Whorton; title: Healthy, moral, and strong / Roberta J. Park.