"In just 138 pages, Schirato covers a lot of ground in the history and culture of sports... he approaches his analysis of sport with the critical eye of a fan, treating it seriously as a social practice and as a social institution... A helpful, thought-provoking, and non-dogmatic book that graduate and undergraduate sport studies programs should find beneficial." - Malcolm MacLean, The History of Sport In Understanding Sport Culture, the history of modern sport is traced and analyzed from its ancient and medieval roots (the festivals of Greece and Rome, and games like folk football) to its mid-19th-century origins as a series of exercises intended to develop discipline and character in students attending private British public schools, and finally to its development into a popular spectacle and worldwide institution.


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  • Brand: SAGE Publications
  • SKU: 9781412907392
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  • Tony Schirato (Author)
  • Publisher:  SLE Pound, 1st edition (19 September 2007)
  • Language: English
  • Paperback:  160 pages
  • ISBN-10: 141290739X
  • ISBN-13:  978-1412907392
  • Item Weight:  249 g
  • Dimensions:  15.6 x 0.94 x 23.39 cm
  • Country of Origin: India

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