Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Sport History written by Murray G. Phillips and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-19 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 development of the discipline. The book explores both traditional and non-traditional methodologies in sport history, and traces the interface between sport history and other fields of research, such as literature, material culture and the digital humanities. It considers the importance of key issues such as gender, race, sexuality and politics to our understanding of sport history, and focuses on innovative ways that the scholarship around these issues is challenging accepted discourses. This is the first handbook to include a full section on Indigenous sport history, a topic that has often been ignored in sport history surveys despite its powerful upstream influence on contemporary sport. The book also reflects carefully on the central importance of sport history journals in shaping the development of the discipline. This book is an essential reference for any student, researcher or scholar with an interest in sport history or the relationship between sport and society. It will also be fascinating reading for any historians looking for fresh perspectives on contemporary historiography or social and cultural history.

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies written by H. Lenskyj and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-11 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference collection, bringing together an authoritative and international line-up of scholars to examine key social and political issues related to the Olympics. An essential, 'one-stop' volume for a wide range of academics, students and researchers.

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Download or read book MIAW 2021 written by Corinna Del Bianco and published by LetteraVentidue Edizioni. This book was released on with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The MIAW-Milan International Architecture Workshop is the international intensive programme at the Politecnico di Milano – School of Architecture Urban Planning Construction Engineering, that provides an international design forum for schools, teachers, and students, but it is also an informal platform to discuss issues and share ambitions that education implies. It aims to stimulate cross-over thinking between researchers and practitioners in the design field, involving different scales and encouraging an interdisciplinary approach towards design problems. The MIAW 2021 edition focused on the 2026 Winter Olympic Games Milano-Cortina. The workshop experimented with new design approaches to make the Olympic Games physically responsible, socially sustainable, and environmentally friendly.

Download or read book One Place after Another written by Miwon Kwon and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004-02-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s. Site-specific art emerged in the late 1960s in reaction to the growing commodification of art and the prevailing ideals of art's autonomy and universality. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, as site-specific art intersected with land art, process art, performance art, conceptual art, installation art, institutional critique, community-based art, and public art, its creators insisted on the inseparability of the work and its context. In recent years, however, the presumption of unrepeatability and immobility encapsulated in Richard Serra's famous dictum "to remove the work is to destroy the work" is being challenged by new models of site specificity and changes in institutional and market forces. One Place after Another offers a critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s and a theoretical framework for examining the rhetoric of aesthetic vanguardism and political progressivism associated with its many permutations. Informed by urban theory, postmodernist criticism in art and architecture, and debates concerning identity politics and the public sphere, the book addresses the siting of art as more than an artistic problem. It examines site specificity as a complex cipher of the unstable relationship between location and identity in the era of late capitalism. The book addresses the work of, among others, John Ahearn, Mark Dion, Andrea Fraser, Donald Judd, Renee Green, Suzanne Lacy, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Richard Serra, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, and Fred Wilson.

Download or read book The Story of the Olympic Games written by R. D. Binfield and published by Hadley Press. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY of the OLYMPIC GAMJiS by R. D. BINFIELD. Contents include: INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . .... . . ix I THE ANCIENT GAMES . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 II THE REVIVAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 III THE TRACK EVENTS 34 IV THE MARATHON 57 V WALKING EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 VI THE FIELD EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 VII WOMENS EVENTS 80 VIII THE MODERN PENTATHLON . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 IX CYCLING. By W. J. Mills 85 X WRESTLING. By George Mackenzie 93 XI WEIGHT-LIFTING. By Oscar State 99 XII SWIMMING. By Janet Bassett-Lowke 103 XIII ROWING. By Jack Beresford 113 XIV CANOEING. By John W. Dudderidge 123 XV YACHT RACING. By Frank Eyre 129 XVI HOCKEY 133 XVII ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL . . . . ., . . . . 134 XVIII FENCING 136 XIX BOXING 140 XX OTHER COMPETITIONS 144 XXI OLYMPIC STAMPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 METRICAL CONVERSION TABLES . . . . . . . . 149 SOME TECHNICAL TERMS . . . . . . . . . . 153 OLYMPIC GAMES, 1948 157 THE MARATHON COURSE, 1948 183 THE ROAD WALK COURSE, 1948 184 LIST OF PLATES PLATE 1 Scene in a wrestling school from a wine-jar, about 530 B. C.. . A long distance race about 470 B. C.. 2 Members of the International Olympic Committee, 1896. Loues wins the marathon of 1896. 3 The British team parade at Berlin. The Olympic fire at Berlin. 4 Jesse Owens, starting in the 100 m. at Berlin. P. Williams Canada wins the 1928 100 m. The 100 m. final of 1932. 5 J. Woodruff U. S. A. winning the 800 m. at Berlin. Douglas Lowe, winner of the 1924 800 m. Americas record-breaking 400 m. relay team at Berlin. 6 Albert Hill G. B. wins the 800 m. at Antwerp. W. Roberts hands over in the 1,600 m. relay at Berlin. 7 Lovelocks 1,500 m. 1936, the end of the first lap. The finish. Cunningham congratulates the winner. 8 Percy Hodge wins the steeplechase at Antwerp. Ritola and Nurmi, in the 10,000 m. at Amsterdam. Iso-Hollo Finland takes the water-jump. 9 How the recording camera settles close finishes. 10 L. Lehtinen Finland in the 5,000 m. at Los Angeles. 11 12 13 14 FACING PAGE 17 Paul Popper o Keystone Central Press Central Press V 33 Central Press Paul Popper Central Press V 48 Paul Popper Paul Popper Sport and General 49 Associated Press Central Press V 64 Paul Popper Central Press Central Press 65 Paul Popper Planet News 80 Central Press Glen Hardin U. S. A. holder of the Olympic 400 m. hurdles record. Associated Press Tom Hampson G. B. wins the 800 m. at Los Angeles. Central Press J The runners in the 5,000 m. final at Berlin. Paul Popper R. M. N. Tisdall wins the 400 m. hurdles at Los Angeles. Central Press J The 1908 Marathon. Central Press Dorando finishes. Topical Press 81 85 K. Son Japan and E. Harper G. B. in the Berlin Marathon. Paul Poppet Planet News I G. E. Larner G. B. winning the 10 miles walk in 1908. Central Press f Harold Whitlock G. B. wins the 50 km. walk at Berlin. Planet News Three high jumpers. Cornelius Johnson U. S. A., winner at Berlin. Associated Press 1 H. M. Osborn U. S. A. wins in 1924 Central Press Dorothy Odam G. B. who finished second at Berlin. Associated Press vii PLATE FACING PAGE 15 L. Long Germany and Jesse Owens in the long jump at Berlin. I Associated Press Central Press V 96 D. Hart Hubbard U. S. A. wins at Paris in 1924. Central Press 16 Three pole-vaulters at Berlin. Earl Meadows U. S. A., the winner. Paul Popper S. Nishida of Japan, second. Paul Popper 97 F. R. Webster, Britains finest vaulter. Central Press 17 Hammer, discus and javelin J. Flanagan U. S. A., winner in 1900, 1904 and 1908. Topical Press K. Carpenter U. S. A., who won at Berlin. Paul Popper v 1 1 6 Lemming Sweden, winner in 1908. Central Press 18 Helen Stephens U. S. A. wins the womens 100 m. at Berlin. Paul Popper 1 1 7 Heat of the womens 80 m...

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Download or read book The Sumerians written by Samuel Noah Kramer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-09-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A readable and up-to-date introduction to a most fascinating culture” from a world-renowned Sumerian scholar (American Journal of Archaeology). The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them. Professor Kramer communicates his enthusiasm for his subject as he outlines the history of the Sumerian civilization and describes their cities, religion, literature, education, scientific achievements, social structure, and psychology. Finally, he considers the legacy of Sumer to the ancient and modern world. “An uncontested authority on the civilization of Sumer, Professor Kramer writes with grace and urbanity.” —Library Journal