The Sokol in the Czech Lands to 1914
Subtitle: Training for the Nation
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780333682982
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Gymnastics; Social history; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; c 1800 to c 1900; History - General History; History: World; Czech Republic; Former Czechoslovakia; Eastern Europe - General; Exercise; Sociology - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; General; Ceskoslovenska obec sokolsk; History; éCeskoslovenskâa obec sokolskâa
First sentence: By the time the first Sokol club was founded in Prague in 1862, European gymnastics was an established system that had evolved through a century of innovation and discovery.