Book contents
- Sport and Democracy in the Ancient and Modern Worlds
- Sport and Democracy in the Ancient and Modern Worlds
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- A Note on the Title
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Terms and Concepts
- 3 Previous Work Positing a Causal Relationship between Sport and Democratization
- 4 Congruence between Society and Sport
- 5 Sport as a School for Democracy
- 6 Sport as an Impediment to Democratization
- 7 The Cumulative Effect of Horizontal Mass Sport on Democratization
- 8 Sport and Society in Early Iron Age Greece
- 9 Sport and Society in Sixth- and Fifth-Century BCE Greece
- 10 Sport and Democratization in Sixth- and Fifth-Century BCE Greece
- 11 Sport and Society in Britain from 1800 to 1840
- 12 Sport and Society in Britain from 1840 to 1870
- 13 Sport in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Germany
- 14 Sport and Society in Britain from 1870 to 1900
- 15 Sport and Democratization in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- 16 Mass Sport in the United States
- 17 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
List of Figures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2012
Book contents
- Sport and Democracy in the Ancient and Modern Worlds
- Sport and Democracy in the Ancient and Modern Worlds
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- A Note on the Title
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Terms and Concepts
- 3 Previous Work Positing a Causal Relationship between Sport and Democratization
- 4 Congruence between Society and Sport
- 5 Sport as a School for Democracy
- 6 Sport as an Impediment to Democratization
- 7 The Cumulative Effect of Horizontal Mass Sport on Democratization
- 8 Sport and Society in Early Iron Age Greece
- 9 Sport and Society in Sixth- and Fifth-Century BCE Greece
- 10 Sport and Democratization in Sixth- and Fifth-Century BCE Greece
- 11 Sport and Society in Britain from 1800 to 1840
- 12 Sport and Society in Britain from 1840 to 1870
- 13 Sport in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Germany
- 14 Sport and Society in Britain from 1870 to 1900
- 15 Sport and Democratization in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- 16 Mass Sport in the United States
- 17 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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