Sport and Society: History, Power and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780335210701 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 224 str.

Graham Scambler

Opis

This is a succinct and comprehensive account of the contemporary sociology of sport. It starts by tracing the key 'moments' in the transition from pre-modern to modern sport, giving detailed accounts of the athletic competition in the ancient games at Olympia; the genesis of modern track-and-field athletics in nineteenth-century England; and the reconstruction by de Coubertin and unfolding of the Olympic movement through the twentieth century.