This book highlights sport as one of the key inspirations for an international range of modernist artists. Sport emerged as a corollary of the industrial revolu
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This volume of wide-ranging essays by sport historians and sociologists examines the complex relations of war, peace and sport through a series of case studies
This original study examines different incarnations of the Pyrenees, beginning with the assumptions of 18th-century geologists, who treated the mountains like a