Tennis

A Cultural History

Heiner Gillmeister (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

482 Seiten

1998 | New edition
Leicester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7185-0195-2 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.8.1998
Zusatzinfo	black & white illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Gewicht	762 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tennis
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
ISBN-10	0-7185-0195-0 / 0718501950
ISBN-13	978-0-7185-0195-2 / 9780718501952
Zustand	Neuware