Sports: The First Five Millennia

ISBN-13: 9781558496101 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 464 str.

Allen Guttman

Opis

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 have followed a similar historical trajectory from traditional to modern forms.

In Sports: The First Five Millennia, Guttmann traces this evolution across continents, cultures, and historical epochs to construct a single comprehensive narrative of the world's sports.