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Author | : Robert Crego |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003-01-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0313361150 |
Many of the sports and games played around the world today have their roots in the 18th and 19th centuries. Their history, detailed in Sports and Games of the 18th and 19th Centuries, provides us with an insight into the life and times of cultures across the globe. The dominance of Britain as a world power during this time had a particularly powerful effect in sports, as it organized many Western sports with specific rules, and repressed the traditional sports and games of regions it colonized such as Africa. Rules and equipment for all of the sports and games of this time period, along with diagrams, are included. The book is divided into seven geopolitical regions: Africa, Asia (including the Middle East), British Isles, Europe, Latin America, North America, and Oceania. Each region opens with an essay placing sports and games from that area in their political and cultural context. Following the essay are entries on each individual sport. After a description of the history of the sport, detailed instructions for playing the 18th or 19th century version of the sport follow. A list of equipment is provided, and any alternate rules or variations of the game are also given. As part of the Sports and Games Through History series, this volume will appeal to students as well as sports, history, and cultural enthusiasts of all ages.
Author | : Ann R. Hawkins |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2021-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1438485565 |
A vital part of daily life in the nineteenth century, games and play were so familiar and so ubiquitous that their presence over time became almost invisible. Technological advances during the century allowed for easier manufacturing and distribution of board games and books about games, and the changing economic conditions created a larger market for them as well as more time in which to play them. These changing conditions not only made games more profitable, but they also increased the influence of games on many facets of culture. Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America focuses on the material and visual culture of both American and British games, examining how cultures of play intersect with evolving gender norms, economic structures, scientific discourses, social movements, and nationalist sentiments.
Author | : Robert Crego |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2003-01-30 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : |
Historical overview and description of popular sports and games from around the world played during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Author | : Steve Craig |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780313361203 |
Based on reports from 19th century explorers, museum artifacts, and other historical documents, the rules, equipment, and diagrams as they are currently understood are provided here for readers, along with suggestions for adapting these sports and games for modern times. Sports enthusiasts and students will find this volume a valuable resource for discovering the earliest beginnings of our modern-day sports. Divided according to seven geopolitical regions of the world, Sports and Games of the Ancients describes the sports, games, and play of our earliest ancestors. Their need for survival in often hostile conditions enable them to develop skills such as long distance running or archery, and these skills were then practiced in friendly competitions that evolved into our modern-day marathons and Olympic events. Covering such games as Africa's mancala and senet, the martial arts of Asia, the log run and Tejo of Latin America, and the boomerang and surfing of Oceania, this volume provides a solid picture of the sports and games of our ancient ancestors.
Author | : Tony Collins |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2018-08-06 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1351709674 |
This ambitious and fascinating history considers why, in the space of sixty years between 1850 and 1910, football grew from a marginal and unorganised activity to become the dominant winter entertainment for millions of people around the world. The book explores how the world’s football codes - soccer, rugby league, rugby union, American, Australian, Canadian and Gaelic - developed as part of the commercialised leisure industry in the nineteenth century. Football, however and wherever it was played, was a product of the second industrial revolution, the rise of the mass media, and the spirit of the age of the masses. Important reading for students of sports studies, history, sociology, development and management, this book is also a valuable resource for scholars and academics involved in the study of football in all its forms, as well as an engrossing read for anyone interested in the early history of football.
Author | : Joseph Strutt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 1838 |
Genre | : Games |
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Author | : Martin Hurcombe |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2023-03-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000848582 |
This volume of wide-ranging essays by sport historians and sociologists examines the complex relations of war, peace and sport through a series of case studies from South and North America, Europe, North Africa, Asia and New Zealand. From formal military training in the late nineteenth century to contemporary esports, the relationship between military and sporting cultures has endured across nations in times of conflict and peace. This collection contextualizes debates around the morality and desirability of continuing to play sport against the backdrop of war as others are dying for their nation. It also examines the legacy and memory of particular wars as expressed in a range of sporting practices in the immediate aftermath of conflicts such as the World Wars and wars of independence. At the same time, this book analyses the history of sport and peace by considering how sport can operate as a pacification in some contexts and a tool of reconciliation in others. Together, and through an introductory framing essay, these essays offer scholars of sport, conflict studies and cultural history more broadly a multinational analysis of the war-peace-sport nexus that has operated throughout the world since the late nineteenth century. Chapter 11 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.taylorfrancis.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Funded by Tokyo University.
Author | : David Goldblatt |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 755 |
Release | : 2016-07-26 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0393254119 |
“A people’s history of the Olympics.”—New York Times Book Review A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year The Games is best-selling sportswriter David Goldblatt’s sweeping, definitive history of the modern Olympics. Goldblatt brilliantly traces their history from the reinvention of the Games in Athens in 1896 to Rio in 2016, revealing how the Olympics developed into a global colossus and highlighting how they have been buffeted by (and affected by) domestic and international conflicts. Along the way, Goldblatt reveals the origins of beloved Olympic traditions (winners’ medals, the torch relay, the eternal flame) and popular events (gymnastics, alpine skiing, the marathon). And he delivers memorable portraits of Olympic icons from Jesse Owens to Nadia Comaneci, the Dream Team to Usain Bolt.
Author | : Joanne Collie |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 2000-04-27 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780521586627 |
This British cultural studies course is intended for students at an intermediate to upper-intermediate level in upper secondary or university level education.The 10 units explore the variety and realities of lifestyles in contemporary British society through a range of broad topics such as cultural diversity, sport, food, and holidays and leisure. The book's comparative, cross-cultural approach allows students to take the familiar as a departure point before moving into the less familiar. The wealth of authentic texts from different genres and recordings of unscripted interviews encourage a creative response and involvement throughout. This integration of language, literature and culture allows students to build up a personal picture and understanding of modern Britain. A Teacher s Book and Cassette is also available.
Author | : Elliott J. Gorn |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780252071843 |
Elliott J. Gorn and Warren Goldstein show us where our games and pastimes came from, how they developed, and what they have meant to Americans. The great heroes of baseball and football are here, as well as the dramatic moments of boxing and basketball. Beyond this, the authors show us how sports fit into the larger contours of our past. A Brief History of American Sports reveals that from colonial times to the present, sports have been central to American culture, and a profound expression of who we are.