Sports : the first five millennia / Allen Guttmann.
Sports : the first five millennia / Allen Guttmann.
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Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, c2004.
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N796.09/11
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English
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448 p. ; ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction : rules of the game -- 1. Preliterate peoples -- 2. Before the Greeks -- 3. Greek athletic festivals -- 4. Roman sports -- 5. Traditional Asian sports -- 6. European sports from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance -- 7. "Made in England" : the invention of modern sports -- 8. Cricket fol...
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Publisher
Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, c2004.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
c2004.
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"From ancient Egyptian archery and medieval Japanese football to contemporary American baseball, every sport has been shaped by - and in turn has helped shape - the culture of which it is part. Yet as Allen Guttmann shows in this far-ranging study, for all their differences sports throughout the ages have exhibited many common characteristics. They...
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Sports : the first five millennia / Allen Guttmann.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N796.09/11
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74VKPWggDLlg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKPWggDLlg
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ISBN
1558494707 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781558494701 (cloth : alk. paper)
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796.09
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991019669599702626
