Author: Donald WalkerPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Defensive exercises; comprising wrestling, boxing, &c
Author: Donald WalkerDefensive Exercises; comprising wrestling, ... boxing; ... fencing and broad sword; ... the gun, the rifle, etc
Author: Donald WalkerDefensive Exercises ; Comprising Wrestling, as in Cumberland, Westmoreland, Cornwall, and Devonshire ; Boxing, Both in the Usal Mode and in a Simpler One ; Defence Against Brute Force, by Various Means ; Fencing and Broad Sword, with Simpler Methods...
Author: Donald WalkerFencing. Boxing. Wrestling
Author: Walter PollockIndian Club Swinging and the Birth of Global Fitness
Author: Conor HeffernanPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350401633
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Emerging in colonial India, the fitness fad that was Indian Club Swinging became a global exercise practice in the early 19th century. Used by physicians, soldiers, gymnasts, children and athletes alike, clubs were used to solve numerous social concerns and ills, and often prescribed to treat everything from depression to spinal abnormalities. This book provides a definitive account of the rise and spread of club swinging as it spread from India to Europe and America, asking why and how it became so popular. Discussing the global, commercial fitness culture of the 19th century, Indian Club Swinging and the Birth of Global Fitness explores how the popularity of this exercise reflected much deeper global and domestic concerns about body image, military preparation and education. Addressing broader questions about nationalism, gender, race and popular commerce across the British Empire, it highlights the origins of our modern transnational fitness culture and shows how it intersected with global and colonial understandings of health, medicine and education.
Catalogue of the Library and Reading Room
Author: Young Men's Institute (Hartford, Conn.)Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Schools and Masters of Fence
Author: Egerton CastlePublisher:
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Category : Fencing
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Schools and Masters of Fence from the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century
Author: Egerton CastleSchools and Masters of Fencing
Author: Egerton CastlePublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486138755
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The definitive work on fencing history and the art swordsmanship traces the sport from its rough beginnings to its latter-day refinement, focusing primarily on the 16th-century development of the rapier and its popularity in Italy.
Schools and Masters of Fence from the Middle Ages to the End of the Eighteenth Century
Author: Egerton CastlePublisher:
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Category : Fencing
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description