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1 online resource (287 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Table; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I: WHAT SPORTS? TRACING EARLY MODERN SPORTS PRACTICES; 1 The Invention of Sports: Early Modern Ball Games; 2 Sport and Recreation in Sixteenth-Century England: The Evidence of Accidental Deaths; 3 Putting Sports in Place: Sports Venues in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England and their Social Significance; PART II: SPORT FOR MONEY AND GLORY? COMMERCIALIZATION AND PROFESSIONALIZATION |
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4 The Capital of Tennis: Jeux de Paume as Urban Sport Facilities in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Paris5 The Bruising Business: Pugilism, Commercial Culture and Celebrity, 1700-1750; 6 An 'Art and a Science': Eighteenth-Century Sports Training; PART III: PROMOTING HEALTH OR DANGER? PHYSICAL EXERCISE UNDER SCRUTINY; 7 Exercise for Women; 8 Healthy, 'Decorous' and Pleasant Exercise: Competing Models and the Practices of the Italian Nobility (Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries) |
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9 Exercise, Health and Gender: Normative Discourses and Practices in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century German-Speaking CountriesPART IV: ENHANCING OR ENDANGERING STATUS AND IDENTITY?; 10 Masculine and Political Identity in German Martial Sports; 11 French Enlightenment Swimming; 12 Swordsmanship and Society in Early Modern Japan; Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Schattner, Angela
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| ISBN |
9781317051015 |
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1317051017 |
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