Looseleaf for A History and Philosophy of Sport and Physical Education: From Ancient Civilizations to the Modern World

by Mechikoff, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781260391893
• ISBN10: 1260391892
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780078022715, 9781259408625
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Loose-leaf
• Copyright: 2019-01-30
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Table of Contents

Preface

Section I: Ancient Civilizations

Chapter 1: History and Philosophy of Sport and Physical Education

Chapter 2:Sumer, Egypt, China, and Mesoamerica

Chapter 3:Greece

Chapter 4:Rome

Section II: From the Spiritual World to the Secular World: Changing Concepts of the Body

Chapter 5:Philosophy, Sport, and Physical Education During the Middle Ages: 900-1400

Chapter 6:The Renaissance and the Reformation: 1300-1600

Chapter 7: The Age of Science and Enlightenment: 1560-1789

Chapter 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 Historical and Philosophical Development of Sport and Physical Education in America

Chapter 9:Sport in the Colonial Period

Chapter 10:Changing Concepts of the Body

Chapter 11:The Impact of Science and the Concept of Health on the Theoretical and Professional Development of Physical Education: 1885-1930

Chapter 12:The Transformation of Physical Education: 1900-1939

Section IV: The American Approach to Sport and Physical Education in the Twentieth Century

Chapter 13:The Evolution of Physical Education: 1940 and Beyond

Chapter 14:Sport in the Twentieth Century

Section V: A Social and Political History of the Modern Olympic Games

Chapter 15: Pioneers and Progress: 1896-1936

Chapter 16:The Cold War Olympics: 1948-1988

Chapter 17:After the Cold War: 2008-2018

Credits

Index