Sports culture : An A-Z guide. /

Cashmore, Ellis.

Sports culture : An A-Z guide. / Ellis Cashmore. - New York : Routledge, c2002. - xii, 482 p. 24 cm.

Examines individual issues,people,artefacts,events and organizationsin their historical ,social,and cultural contexts.It contains more than 170 entries including:agression,corruption,drugs,eating disorders,Field of Dreams,Michael Jordan Don King,Left-handedness,nationalism,patrernity,racism,Raging Bull,rivalries,tobacco.

Examines individual issues,people,events and organizations in their social and cultural contexts which will facilitate in the discovery of something in the meanings of events,their places in history,the reactions to them,the institutions they actualized and the changes they either signaled or ushered in in totality the culture encircling the event.

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GV 706.5 .C268 2002