Wrestling to Rasslin': Ancient Sport to American Spectacle - Tapa blanda

Morton, Gerald W.

 
9780879723248: Wrestling to Rasslin': Ancient Sport to American Spectacle
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ISBN 10: 0879723246 ISBN 13: 9780879723248
Editorial: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005

Sinopsis

Wrestling to Rasslin' traces the roots of one of man's oldest competitive sports. Beginning in sporting bars in the late 1800s and graduating to Barnum sideshow tents, wrestling has thrilled the world over with such early athletes as William Muldoon, George Hackenschmidt, and Tom Jenkins. After World War II and the advent of television, wrestling took a turn toward the dramatic, emphasizing conflicts between good and evil.

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Acerca del autor

Gerald W. Morton is Distinguished Research Professor of English and Philosophy at Auburn University at Montgomery. George M. O Brien is professor emeritus of German and Latin in the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.

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Editorial
University of Wisconsin Press
Año de publicación
2005
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0879723246
ISBN 13 
9780879723248
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
176
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

Doelen 72
Breda
4831 GR
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9780879723231: Wrestling to Rasslin': Ancient Sport to American Spectacle

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