TY - BOOK ID - 138121961 TI - Sporting Cultures, 1650–1850 AU - O'Quinn, Daniel, AU - Tadie, Alexis , PY - 2018 SN - 1487510748 148751073X PB - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, DB - UniCat KW - Sports KW - Social aspects KW - History KW - Social aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138121961 AB - "In the eighteenth century sport as we know it emerged as a definable social activity. Hunting and other country sports became the source of significant innovations in visual art; racing and boxing generated important subcultures; and sport's impact on good health permeated medical, historical, and philosophical writings. Sporting Cultures, 1650 1850 is a collection of essays that charts important developments in the study of sport in the eighteenth century. Editors Daniel O'Quinn and Alexis Tadie have gathered together an array of European and North American scholars to critically examine the educational, political, and medical contexts that separated sports from other physical activities. The volume reveals how the mediation of sporting activities, through match reports, pictures, and players, transcended the field of aristocratic patronage and gave rise to the social and economic forces we now associate with sports. In Sporting Cultures, 1650-1850, O'Quinn and Tadie successfully lay the groundwork for future research on the complex intersection of power, pleasure, and representation in sports culture."-- ER -