Sporting Days
Author : John Colquhoun
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Page : 286 pages
File Size : 31,66 MB
Release : 1866
Category : Fishing
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Author : John Colquhoun
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Page : 286 pages
File Size : 31,66 MB
Release : 1866
Category : Fishing
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Author : L. Jon Wertheim
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 32,75 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 1328637247
A rollicking guided tour of one extraordinary summer, when some of the most pivotal and freakishly coincidental stories all collided and changed the way we think about modern sports The summer of 1984 was a watershed moment in the birth of modern sports when the nation watched Michael Jordan grow from college basketball player to professional athlete and star. That summer also saw ESPN's rise to media dominance as the country's premier sports network and the first modern, commercialized, profitable Olympics. Magic Johnson and Larry Bird's rivalry raged, Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe reigned in tennis, and Hulk Hogan and Vince McMahon made pro wrestling a business, while Donald Trump pierced the national consciousness as a pro football team owner. It was an awakening in the sports world, a moment when sports began to morph into the market-savvy, sensationalized, moneyed, controversial, and wildly popular arena we know today. In the tradition of Bill Bryson's One Summer: America, 1927, L. Jon Wertheim captures these 90 seminal days against the backdrop of the nostalgia-soaked 1980s, to show that this was the year we collectively traded in our ratty Converses for a pair of sleek, heavily branded, ingeniously marketed Nikes. This was the year that sports went big-time.
Author : Tresham Gilbey
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Page : 472 pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Recreation
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Author : Susan Brownell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 31,31 MB
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803210981
One of the more problematic sport spectacles in American history took place at the 1904 World?s Fair in St. Louis, which included the third modern Olympic Games. Associated with the Games was a curious event known as Anthropology Days organized by William J. McGee and James Sullivan, at that time the leading figures in American anthropology and sports, respectively. McGee recruited Natives who were participating in the fair?s ethnic displays to compete in sports events, with the ?scientific? goal of measuring the physical prowess of ?savages? as compared with ?civilized men.? This interdisciplinary collection of essays assesses the ideas about race, imperialism, and Western civilization manifested in the 1904 World?s Fair and Olympic Games and shows how they are still relevant. A turning point in both the history of the Olympics and the development of modern anthropology, these games expressed the conflict between the Old World emphasis on culture and New World emphasis on utilitarianism. Marked by Franz Boas?s paper at the Scientific Congress, the events in St. Louis witnessed the beginning of the shift in anthropological research from nineteenth-century evolutionary racial models to the cultural relativist paradigm that is now a cornerstone of modern American anthropology. Racist pseudoscience nonetheless reappears to this day in the realm of sports.
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Page : 556 pages
File Size : 45,50 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Sports
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Page : 428 pages
File Size : 21,48 MB
Release : 1870
Category : Sports
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Page : 716 pages
File Size : 50,80 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Sports
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Author : Sampson Low
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Page : 1900 pages
File Size : 32,85 MB
Release : 1926
Category : English imprints
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Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Author : Walter Campbell
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Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,52 MB
Release : 1869
Category : Hunting
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Author : Leeds (England). Public Libraries, Art Gallery and Museum
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Page : 578 pages
File Size : 25,76 MB
Release : 1907
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