The Allure of Sports in Western Culture Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : University of Toronto Press
• File Size : 24,8 Mb
• Release Date : 25 June 2024

Sports are the most popular spectator events in the history of the world. This volume demonstrates how sports shape societies and individuals. The essays offer critical new insights and historical

• Publisher : Vernon Press
• File Size : 23,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 September 2020

In “The Idea of Sport in Western Culture from Antiquity to the Contemporary Era,” Dr Saverio Battente examines the concept of sport as an element of Western culture. Sport has

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 52,7 Mb
• Release Date : 19 September 2021

The Routledge Handbook of Sport History is a new and innovative survey of the discipline of sport history. Global in scope, it examines the key contemporary issues in sports historiography,

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• File Size : 47,6 Mb
• Release Date : 15 December 2022

The sounds of spectators at football (soccer) are often highlighted – by spectators, tourists, commentators, journalists, scholars, media producers, etc. – as crucial for the experience of football. These sounds are often

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 38,7 Mb
• Release Date : 23 July 2013

This important new study examines the changing place and meaning of lifestyle sports – parkour, surfing, skateboarding, kite-surfing and others – and asks whether they continue to pose a challenge to the

• Publisher : Indiana University Press
• File Size : 27,6 Mb
• Release Date : 30 April 2024

In Win or Else, Larry E. Holmes shows us how Soviet football culture regularly disregarded official ideological and political imperatives and skirted the boundaries between socialism and capitalism. In the

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 26,5 Mb
• Release Date : 25 June 2010

What impact does sport have on the lives of ordinary people? How does sport help to perpetuate inequalities in society? What can social theory tell us about the role of

• Publisher : Human Kinetics
• File Size : 20,8 Mb
• Release Date : 30 October 2018

Blending historical grounding and philosophical insights regarding sport and physical activity, History and Philosophy of Sport and Physical Activity covers the historical and philosophical dimensions of the study of human

• Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
• File Size : 26,6 Mb
• Release Date : 07 June 2022

During a 1980s Edmonton Oilers game, fans unveiled a banner claiming, "On the 8th day, God created Gretzky." Intersections between religious belief and sporting participation are nothing new, where players,

• Publisher : State University of New York Press
• File Size : 43,9 Mb
• Release Date : 30 March 2010

Examines the enormous popular appeal of vampires from early Greek and Slavic folklore to present-day popular culture.