Sport and Society: History, Power and Culture (Issues in Society)
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Publication Date: January 1st, 2005
Publisher:
Open University Press
ISBN:
9780335210701
Pages:
226
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Description
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.