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Routledge - Reformers, Sport, Modernizers Book

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Brand: Routledge
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Explore the historical roots of contemporary world sport with Reformers, Sport, Modernizers: Middle-class Revolutionaries. This Routledge publication provides a detailed record of selected middle-class individuals across Europe who shaped the early evolution of modern sport. It examines how these innovators viewed athletic success as an expression of human qualities worthy of admiration and encouragement. Readers will discover how these pioneers used sport as a medium for personal, collective, and national virtue. The text offers the first general consideration of these innovators and proselytizers who helped place Europe at the forefront of major sporting developments. This book is an essential resource for those interested in the sociology of sport and the historical figures who transformed athletic competition into a global phenomenon.

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Examines the roles of middle-class individuals in the early evolution of modern sport across Europe.

Analyzes how sporting success was used to express and encourage admired human qualities.

Provides a study of sport as a medium for personal, collective, and national virtue.

Offers the first general consideration of the innovators who drove major sporting developments.

Traces the historical influence of European pioneers on contemporary world sport phenomena.

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Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 071465244X
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 May 2002
Listed Since: 10 February 2007

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