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Tennis
This is the second edition of the highly acclaimed and bestselling comprehensive history of tennis which was the first truly scholarly history of any individual sport. Supported by a startling wealth of linguistic and documentary research, Gillmeister charts the global evolution of tennis from its o... Read more
Published: 2017
Pages: 632
eBook: 9781781795217
Heiner Gillmeister is a retired Chaucerian and linguistics scholar at the University of Bonn and is a world authority on the history of ball games. He taught sports history at the German Sports University, Cologne, and his theory that Association Football has its roots in Renaissance Italy and that golf and even cricket originated on the European continent created an international stir. He is a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, The Oxford English Dictionary and to leading German newspapers such as Die Welt and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Cover | cover | ||
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Contents | v | ||
List of Plates | vi | ||
List of Figures | vii | ||
From the Preface to the First Edition | xii | ||
Preface to the Second Edition | xiv | ||
Acknowledgements | xv | ||
1 | 1 | ||
2 | 33 | ||
3 | 83 | ||
4 | 130 | ||
5 | 146 | ||
6 | 210 | ||
7 | 249 | ||
8 | 266 | ||
9 | 285 | ||
Notes | 371 | ||
Bibliography | 532 | ||
Illustration sources | 570 | ||
Index | 576 |