ISBN: 9782130817215
Sport, as we conceive it today, with its rules, its techniques, its practices, and its practitioners, its representations and its institutions, its records and its values, finds its genesis in England in the midst of the industrial revolution of the Eighteenth century. Older practices responded to military, educational or sacred functions and cannot be assimilated to contemporary sports logics which oscillate between traditions, market weight and political issues. From public schools to Zinédine Zidane, this book traces the history of sport and shows how the study of what constitutes a real mass culture offers one of the best mirrors of our society.
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