Fitness in American culture : images of health, sport, and the body, 1830-1940 / edited by Kathryn Grover

Published:: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press ; Rochester, N.Y. : Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum, [1989]
Copyright Date:: ©1989
Physical Description:: viii, 178 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Additional Creators:: Grover, Kathryn, 1953- and Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum

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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.

Subject(s):

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

ISBN:

0870236814 (alk. paper)
0870236822 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Collection:

Ronald A. Smith Sports History Book Collection.

Note:

Papers presented at a symposium held at the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum in spring, 1986.
Includes index.

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