Tennis : a cultural history
著者
書誌事項
Tennis : a cultural history
Leicester University Press, 1998
- : pbk
- タイトル別名
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Kulturgeschichte des Tennis
大学図書館所蔵 全3件
注記
First English edition published : 1997
Original German edition published : c1990
Bibliography: p. [411]-434
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Charting the global evolution of tennis from its origins in the early Middle Ages to the appearance of the modern game in the 20th century, this text debunks several established myths about the history of the game, including those surrounding the invention of the Davis Cup.
目次
- The origins of tennis - the monk's racket
- the tennis games of the Middle Ages
- the language of tennis
- tennis in renaissance literature
- tennis in the German ballhouse
- lawn tennis - the sturdy bastard
- lawn tennis in America
- continental colonies - lawn tennis in France
- lawn tennis under the Kaiser.
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