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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
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