Sport, a cultural history
By: Richard D. Mandell.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Sports -- Social aspects -- History; Social history
Notes: Bibliography: p. [305]-330.
Includes index.
Table of contents: label: Sport before high culture
title: Sport before the Greeks -- Greece -- Spread of the taste -- Sport in pre-industrial high culture -- Europe, 500-1700 -- England : land of Sport -- Induced sport -- American sport to the 1920s -- The modern Olympic games -- American sport in recent times -- The Olympic games, 1936-1980 -- Sport and society in the late twentieth century -- Joyous sport, beautiful sport.