Author: POLICE GAZETTE.Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
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The Police Gazette. Art of Wrestling
The Police Gazette Art of Wrestling
Author: The Police Gazette Art of Wrestling
Author: Richard Kyle FoxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wrestling
Languages : en
Pages : 73
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Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years 1881-1900
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 958
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Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years ...
Author: British MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Author: British LibraryThe Mysteries of New York
Author: Ringside
Author: Scott BeekmanPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313026785
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Despite its status as one of the oldest and most enduringly popular sports in history, wrestling has been pushed to the background of the current American sports scene. Most people today would have a hard time even considering wrestling (with some of its modern theatrics) in the same terms as track and field or boxing. But until the 1920s, wrestling stood as a legitimate professional sport in this country, and a widely practiced amateur one as well. Its past respectability may not have endured, but the advent of cable television in the 1980s offered the sport a renewed opportunity to play a determining role in American popular culture. This opportunity was not wasted, and wrestlers now assume places in politics and film at the highest levels. Ringside, the first work to fully examine the history of professional wrestling in this country, provides an illuminating and colorful account of all of the various athletes, entertainers, businessmen, and national outlooks that have determined wrestling's erratic route through American history. This chronological work begins with a brief account of wrestling's global history, and then proceeds to investigate the sport's growth as a specifically American institution. Wrestling has continued to survive in the face of technological developments, scandals, public ridicule, and a lack of centralized control, and today this supremely adaptable entertainment form represents, in sum, an international industry capable of attracting enormous television and pay-per-view audiences, along with massive amounts of advertising and merchandizing revenue. Ringside focuses on the business of wrestling as well as on the performers and their in-ring antics, and offers readers a fully nuanced examination of the development of professional wrestling in America.
National Police Gazette and the Making of the Modern American Man, 1879-1906
Author: G. ReelPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403984700
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This book analyzes the National Police Gazette, the racy New York City tabloid that gained an audience among men and boys of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Looking at how images of sex, crime, and sports reflected and shaped masculinities during this watershed era, this book amounts to a story of what it meant to be an American man at the beginning of the American Century.
Antiquarian Bookman
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 996
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