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From ritual to record : the nature of modern sports

Allen Guttmann (Author)
Examines the relationship between sports and society, including the degree to which modern sport expresses the characteristics of modern society, such as secularism, equality, specialization, rationalization, and bureaucracy

Print Book, English, 2004
Updated [edition] with a new afterword
Columbia University Press, New York, 2004