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LEADER: 01574cam a22002898i 4500
001 2015033804
003 DLC
005 20150910181143.0
008 150828s2016 ilu b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2015033804
020 $a9780226371283 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $z9780226371313 (e-book)
040 $aICU/DLC$beng$erda$cICU
042 $apcc
050 00 $aGV992$b.W558 2016
082 00 $a796.342$223
100 1 $aWilson, Elizabeth,$d1936-$eauthor.
245 10 $aLove game :$ba history of tennis, from Victorian pastime to global phenomenon /$cElizabeth Wilson.
263 $a1604
264 1 $aChicago :$bThe University of Chicago Press,$c2016.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe game of love -- A leisured class -- Healthy excitement and scientific play -- Real tennis and the scoring system -- The growth of a sporting culture -- On the Riviera -- What's wrong with women? -- A match out of Henry James -- The lonely American -- The four musketeers -- Working-class heroes -- Tennis in Weimar and after -- As a man grows older -- Three women -- This sporting life -- Home from the war -- Gorgeous girls -- Opening play -- Those also excluded -- Tennis meets feminism -- That's entertainment -- Bad behaviour -- Corporate tennis -- Women's power -- Vorsprung durch Technik -- Celebrity stars -- Millennium tennis -- The rhetoric of sport -- Back to the future.
650 0 $aTennis$xHistory.