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Sport's relationship with other leisure industries : historical perspective / edited by Dion Georgiou and Benjamin Litherland

Contributor(s): Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, c2017Edition: 1st editionDescription: xii, 345 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780367109288 (pbk)
  • 9781138223424 (hbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 796 SPO
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Contents
1. Introduction : Sport's Relationship with other Leisure Industries- Historical perspective
2. Fro the Recreation of Gentlemen and other Fit persons of the Better sort: Tennis Court and Blowing Greens as Early Leisure Venues in Sixteenth-to Eighteenth - Cetury London and Bath
3. Running Pedestrianism in Victorian Manchester
4. That Little Sugarloaf Island : Ailsa Craig, Romance, Reality and the Branding of Scottish Sport Leisure1707-2013
5. Sport Tourism - An Effective Cooperation : Canoeing and Mountaineering in France before the first world War
6. The Rise of the World's Largest Sport and Atheletic Outfier : A study of Gamages's of Holbon, 1878-1913
7. Cycling Notstalalgia: Authenticity, Tourism and Social Critique in Tuscany
8. Professional Bodybuilding and the Business of 'Extreme' Bodies : The Mr. Olympia Competition in the Context of Las Vegas's
9. Redefining the carnivalesque: The construction of Ritual, Revelry and Spectacle in british Leisure Practices through the idea and Model of 'Carnival'
10. From the Niagara: Imitation and Innovation among Female Natationists
11. Sporting Entertainment, Discarded Posibilities and case of Football as a variety Sport, 1905-1906
12. Triang Strong Toys: Lines Brothers and British motor Sports in the inter war period
13. Spectacular Bodies : The Swimsuit, Sexuality and Hollywood
14. Cricket, Entertainment, Glamour Industry and Promotional Culture in India 1913-2913

Includes Index : p. 339 - 345

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