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A History and Philosophy of Sport and Physical Education: From Ancient Civilizations to the Modern World, 4/e

Robert A. Mechikoff, San Diego State University--San Diego
Steven G. Estes, East Carolina University

Section I: Ancient Civilizations
1. History and Philosophy in Sport and Physical Education
2. Sumer, Egypt, China, and Mesoamerica
3. Greece
4. Rome

Section II: From the Spiritual World to the Secular World: Changing Concepts of the Body
5. Philosophy, Sport, and Physical Education During the Middle Ages: 900-1400
6. The Renaissance and the Reformation: 1300-1600
7. The Age of Science and the Enlightenment: 1560-1789
8. Philosophical Positions of the Body and the Development of Physical Education: Contributions of the Germans, Swedes, and Danes in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Section III: The Theoretical and Professional Development of American Physical Education
9. The Impact of Science and the Concepts of Health on the Theoretical and Professional Development of American Physical Education, 1885-1930
10. The Transformation of Physical Education: 1900-1939

Section IV: Historical and Philosophical Development of Sport in America
11. Sport in the Colonial Period
12. Changing Concepts of the Body: An Overview of Sport and Play in Nineteenth-Century America
13. Sport in the Twentieth Century

Section V: A Social and Political History of the Modern Olympic Games
14. Pioneers and Progress: 1896-1936
15. The Cold War Olympics: 1948-1988
16. After the Cold War: 1992-2004

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