Sports around the World [4 volumes]: History, Culture, and Practice
Автор: [автор не указан] Год: 2012 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 1848 ISBN: 1598843001 Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice provides a unique, global overview of sports and sports cultures. Unlike most works of this type, this book provides both essays that examine general topics, such as globalization and sport, international relations and sport, and tourism and sport, as well as essays on sports history, culture, and practice in world regionsa??for example, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, Europe, and Oceaniaa??in order to provide a more global perspective. These essays are followed by entries on specific sports, world athletes, stadiums and arenas, famous games and matches, and major controversies. Spanning topics as varied as modern professional cycling to the fictional movie Rocky to the deadly ball game of the ancient Mayans, the first three volumes contain overview essays and entries for specific sports that have been and are currently practiced around the world. The fourth volume provides a compendium of...
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