Football: The First Hundred Years
Title | Football: The First Hundred Years PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian Harvey |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2013-05-13 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1134269129 |
The story of the creation of Britain's national game has often been told. According to the accepted wisdom, the refined football games created by English public schools in the 1860s subsequently became the sports of the masses. Football, The First Hundred Years, provides a revisionist history of the game, challenging previously widely-accepted beliefs. Harvey argues that established football history does not correspond with the facts. Football, as played by the 'masses' prior to the adoption of the public school codes is almost always portrayed as wild and barbaric. This view may require considerable modification in the light of Harvey's research. Football's First One Hundred Years provides a very detailed picture of the football played outside the confines of the public schools, revealing a culture that was every bit as sophisticated and influential as that found within their prestigious walls. Football, The First Hundred Years sets forth a completely revisionist thesis, offering a different perspective on almost every aspect of the established history of the formative years of the game. The book will be of great interest to sports historians and football enthusiasts alike.
Our First Hundred Years, 1869-1969
Title | Our First Hundred Years, 1869-1969 PDF eBook |
Author | Stevenson Lodge |
Publisher | |
Pages | 23 |
Release | 1969* |
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The Story of the First Hundred Years
Title | The Story of the First Hundred Years PDF eBook |
Author | W. D. Weir |
Publisher | |
Pages | 39 |
Release | 1970* |
Genre | Newtownards (Northern Ireland) |
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The First Hundred Years, Plainwell, 1869-1969
Title | The First Hundred Years, Plainwell, 1869-1969 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 67 |
Release | 1969 |
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Howard University: the First Hundred Years, 1867-1967
Title | Howard University: the First Hundred Years, 1867-1967 PDF eBook |
Author | Rayford W. Logan |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 708 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780814702635 |
When Rayford W. Logan’s astute history of Howard University appeared in 1969, Logan was in a unique position to analyze one of the nation’s most prominent African American colleges. He had recently completed nearly thirty years at Howard as a history professor, living and teaching through almost a third of the school’s first century. Drawing from his own knowledge and university documents, Logan traced Howard’s chronology from 1866, when it was conceived as a theological seminary for African American ministers, to the increasingly successful, and in Logan’s words, cosmopolitan, institution of the 1960s. Logan detailed university milestones, including Howard’s founding by an act of Congress in 1867 and the election of Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson, the university’s first black president, in 1926, as well as the accomplishments of Howard graduates. More than thirty years after its first publication, Logan’s engaging account is essential for a thorough understanding of Howard, and its place in the legacy of historically black universities.
Nothing Like It In the World
Title | Nothing Like It In the World PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen E. Ambrose |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 468 |
Release | 2001-11-06 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780743203173 |
The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
The First Hundred Years
Title | The First Hundred Years PDF eBook |
Author | Pawcatuck Seventh Day Baptist Church (Westerly, R.I.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 1940 |
Genre | Baptists |
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