Tennis

A Cultural History

Heiner Gillmeister (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

464 Seiten

1998
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (Verlag)
978-0-7185-0147-1 (ISBN)

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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 World War II, by which time the major developments in modern lawn tennis had occurred.

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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.2.1998
Zusatzinfo	16pp colour photographs, 120 b&w photographs
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Sport ► Ballsport ► Tennis
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
ISBN-10	0-7185-0147-0 / 0718501470
ISBN-13	978-0-7185-0147-1 / 9780718501471
Zustand	Neuware