Understanding Sports Culture (Understanding Contemporary Culture series)

by TonySchirato (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $40.85

  Traces and analyzes the development of the modern field of sport from its ancient and medieval precursors, through to its inception in the mid-19th 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.