Sports

The First Five Millennia
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-1-55849-610-1
Verlag: University of Massachusetts Press

Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 621 g

This is a lively cultural history of world sports from antiquity to the present. From ancient Egyptian archery and medieval Japanese football to contemporary American baseball, every sport has been shaped by - and in turn has helped shape - the culture of which it is part. Yet as Allen Guttmann shows in this far-ranging study, for all their differences sports have followed a similar historical trajectory from traditional to modern forms. In ""Sports: The First Five Millennia"", Guttmann traces this evolution across continents, cultures, and historical epochs to construct a single comprehensive narrative of the world's sports.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guttmann, Allen

Über Autor(innen)

ALLEN GUTTMANN teaches at Amherst College. Among his many books on the history of sports are From Ritual to Record: The Nature of Modern Sports (1978), Women's Sports: A History (1991), Games and Empires (1994), and The Olympics: A History of the Modern Games (2002).