"Modern Sports around the World provides us a model of the world we live in within the games we watch and play. Structuring this book for college and high school students gives them the academic starting point they need to walk through the front door of numerous disciplines, inc…
"Modern Sports around the World provides us a model of the world we live in within the games we watch and play. Structuring this book for college and high school students gives them the academic starting point they need to walk through the front door of numerous disciplines, inc…
What is the purpose of sport, and how are ethical conceptions of sport shaped by the answers to this question? In "Sport and moral conflict", William Morgan investigates, examining sport as a moral crucible that puts athletes in competitive, emotionally charged situations where …
The Fight for the Moral Soul of Modern Sport: Dueling Amateur and -- Professional Conceptions of Sport in the Early Modern Olympic Games, 1896- -- Formalism and Sport -- Broad Internalism, Moral Realism, and Sport: The Metaphysical Version -- Broad Internalism, Moral Realism, an…
"This book explores the dominant theories of ethics in sports, concluding that a conventionalist model is most defensible. It roots its inquiry in the collision of sporting ideologies in the early twentieth century's Olympic games where English and American ideas of sportsmanshi…
"This book explores the dominant theories of ethics in sports, concluding that a conventionalist model is most defensible. It roots its inquiry in the collision of sporting ideologies in the early twentieth century's Olympic games where English and American ideas of sportsmanshi…
This exciting book for children is packed with fun facts about a range of popular sports such as football, karate, badminton, and skiing, as well as ones you might never have heard of like biathlon or cheese rolling. Whether you're a fan of team sports, winter sports, water spor…
"In the eighteenth century sport as we know it emerged as a definable social activity. Hunting and other country sports became the source of significant innovations in visual art; racing and boxing generated important subcultures; and sport's impact on good health permeated medi…
The Routledge Handbook of Sport History is a new and innovative survey of the discipline of sport history. 0Global in scope, it examines the key contemporary issues in sports historiography, sheds light on previously ignored topics, and sets an intellectual agenda for the future…
"The Routledge Handbook of Sport History is a new and innovative survey of the discipline of sport history. Global in scope, it examines the key contemporary issues in sports historiography, sheds light on previously ignored topics, and sets an intellectual agenda for the future…
"The Routledge Handbook of Sport History is a new and innovative survey of the discipline of sport history. Global in scope, it examines the key contemporary issues in sports historiography, sheds light on previously ignored topics, and sets an intellectual agenda for the future…
The Routledge Handbook of Sport History is a new and innovative survey of the discipline of sport history. Global in scope, it examines the key contemporary issues in sports historiography, sheds light on previously ignored topics, and sets an intellectual agenda for the future …
Looks at the role of sport as practiced in several important civilisations in the ancient world. This book explores how athletics had an importance that extended beyond physical prowess to include military associations, religious ritual, status, and politics. It also compares th…