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McGraw Hill Education India Sport And Society: History Power And Culture by Graham Scambler
This is a succinct and comprehensive account of the contemporary sociology of sport. It starts by tracing the key `moments? in the transition from pre-modern to modern sport giving detailed accounts of the athletic competition in the ancient games at Olympia; the genesis of modern track-and-field athletics in nineteenth-century England; and the reconstruction by de Coubertin and unfolding of the Olympic movement through the twentieth century.