From Ritual to Record: The Nature of Modern Sports

Allen Guttmann

updated edition
September, 2004
Paper, 224 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13341-8
$28.50 / £17.00

Originally published in 1978, From Ritual to Record was one of the first books to recognize the importance of sports as a lens on the fundamental structure of societies. In this reissue, Guttmann emphasizes the many ways that modern sports, dramatically different from the sports of previous eras, have profoundly shaped contemporary life.

About the Author

Allen Guttmann is professor of American studies at Amherst College. His many books include The Olympics: A History of the Modern Games, Games and Empires: Modern Sports and Cultural Imperialism (Columbia), and a translation of Peter Kühnst’s Sports: A Cultural History in the Mirror of Art. He lives in Leverett, Massachusetts.

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