基本説明
監修・解説：小林章夫（上智大学文学部教授）。カーリング、ラクビー、サッカー、テニス、ゴルフ、ボクシング、競馬など、今日世界各地で人気のスポーツの大半が英国発祥。その英国ではスポーツ文献も早くから出版されているが、本コレクションはそれらの内、現在のスポーツ史研究に必須の１９世紀のスポーツ史、スポーツ百科３点を復刻。各種の近代スポーツが成立してゆく過程を、数多くの図版とともに詳しく解説している、英国生活文化の視覚的資料としても利用価値大。
Full Description
A facsimile collection of five volumes with more than 3,100 pages, the set includes three major reference works of Sports and Leisure first published in England during the nineteenth century. (This was an age of modernization in sports, while the idea of sports as leisure and as a method of physical education developed through the growing middle-class society. And new games or sports such as golf, tennis, football, rugby, and cricket emerged.)
Those books published in a large folio format contained the most detailed information about the history of sports in England and how they were originally played mostly by aristocrats before the eighteenth century and how they were transformed and played in the nineteenth century.
All three books are reproduced in their original format. They include hundreds of illustrations and plates to provide a vital reference source for any researchers of British social life, as well as those interested in the history and development of sports and leisure.
