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Fitness in American culture : images of health, sport, and the body, 1830-1940

Title
Fitness in American culture : images of health, sport, and the body, 1830-1940 / edited by Kathryn Grover.
Publication
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press ; Rochester, N.Y. : Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum, ©1989.

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Additional Authors
  • Grover, Kathryn, 1953-
  • Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum.
Description
viii, 178 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
Subject
  • Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
  • 1800-1999
  • Geschichte (1830-1940)
  • Physical fitness > United States > History > 19th century
  • Sports > United States > History > 19th century
  • Physical fitness > United States > History > 20th century
  • Sports > United States > History > 20th century
  • Physical fitness
  • Physical Fitness
  • History, 19th Century
  • History, 20th Century
  • Sports > history
  • Physical fitness
  • Sports
  • Kultur
  • Sport
  • Sport
  • Lichamelijke conditie
  • United States
  • USA
Genre/Form
  • Congress
  • proceedings (reports)
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • History
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Actes de congrès.
Note
  • Papers presented at a symposium held at the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum in spring, 1986.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Sport in American life / Donald J. Mrozek -- American advertising and the reconstruction of the body, 1880-1930 / T.J. Jackson Lears -- Iron therapy and tonics / Michael R. Harris -- Eating to win / James C. Whorton -- Healthy, moral, and strong / Roberta J. Park.
ISBN
  • 0870236814
  • 9780870236815
  • 0870236822
  • 9780870236822
LCCN
89004772
OCLC
  • ocm19323823
  • 19323823
  • SCSB-13961139
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library