Tennis : a cultural history
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Tennis : a cultural history
Leicester University Press, 1997
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Kulturgeschichte des Tennis
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Original German edition published : c1990
Bibliography: p. [411]-434
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume presents a history of tennis. It provides a range of linguistic and documentary evidence to chart the development of the game from its origins in the early Middle Ages to the eve of the First World War, by which time the major developments in modern lawn tennis had occurred including the development of the main championships in the United States, Britain and Europe, the rise of Olympic tennis and the Davis Cup. The book is illustrated with many medieval and Renaissance representations of the game, along with photographs of more recent lawn tennis history.
Table of Contents
- The monk's racket - origins of tennis
- the tennis games of the Middle Ages
- the language of tennis
- tennis in Renaissance literature
- tennis in the German Ballhaus
- lawn tennis - the sturdy bastard
- lawn tennis in America
- continental colonies - lawn tennis in France and Olympic tennis
- lawn tennis under the Kaiser.
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