Understanding Sports Culture

by Tony Schirato

Book Overview

Understanding Sport Culture traces and analyzes the development of the modern field of sport from its ancient and medieval precursors (the festivals of Greece and Rome, and games such as folk football), through to its inception in the mid-nineteenth century as a set of activities designed to instill character and discipline in students in exclusive British public schools, up to its transformation into a global institution and popular spectacle...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 141290739X
• ISBN13: 9781412907392
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 9.1"