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Author : William Bankier
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Ideal Physical Culture and the Truth about the Strong Man written by William Bankier and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Bankier
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (637 download)
Download or read book Ideal Physical Culture and the Truth about the Strong Man written by William Bankier and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Graeme Kent
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849544891
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (495 download)
Download or read book The Strongest Men on Earth written by Graeme Kent and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-03 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They claimed to be the mightiest men in the world. For twenty-five years, before the outbreak of the First World War, professional strongmen were the pop idols of their day. Performing apparently incredible feats of strength, they strutted across stages and topped the bills everywhere, earning thousands of pounds a week. Fans included royalty, heads of state, politicians and leading figures in the literary and artistic worlds, as well as hundreds of thousands of ordinary men and women, all revelling in the antics of these larger-than-life characters. Seeking to outdo each other in death-defying deeds, the strongmen's performances were thrilling and dangerous: lifting elephants, horses, pianos and their players; breaking chains with their biceps; supporting thirty men on a plank suspended on their shoulders. Some strongmen succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Eugen Sandow, a great self-publicist, was appointed physical culture adviser to King George V. His great rival, the bombastic Charles Sampson, toured the world with his blatant cheating and rigged strongman displays until one day the elephant he claimed to be lifting remained suspended in mid-air. Georg Hackenschmidt, the Russian Lion, was so popular that Theodore Roosevelt himself declared wistfully that he would rather be 'Hack' than President of the USA. In The Strongest Men on Earth, Graeme Kent vividly brings to life the world of strongmen (and women), and shares the stories that defined a sporting and show-business era.
Author : Edmond Desbonnet
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476687242
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Kings of Strength written by Edmond Desbonnet and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a century ago, the barrel-chested strongman clad in leopard skins, Roman sandals and carrying an oversized barbell was a common performer in fairs, circuses and vaudeville theaters. In 1911, before this phenomenon had disappeared, French gym owner, journalist and athlete Edmond Desbonnet published a colorful history of these mighty performers. Since he knew and interviewed many of these men (and women), Desbonnet was able to put a human face on the strongmen and strongwomen who made their livings by performing spectacular strength stunts for the entertainment of the public. Among these were super-strong athlete Louis Uni, known as Apollon; Eugen Sandow, the mighty Adonis of the stage; the great strongwoman Kati Sandwina Brumbach and many others who entertained audiences by lifting barbells, automobiles, horses and even elephants. Now translated to English and extensively annotated, The Kings of Strength records and preserves the biographies of more than 200 strength performers and bodybuilders from ancient times up to the early 1900s. The book provides a vital contribution to both theatrical and athletic history, while exploring the universal fascination with strength and muscular physiques.
Author : James Thomas Grein
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Dramatic criticism written by James Thomas Grein and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Waller
Publisher : Victorian Secrets
ISBN 13 : 1906469369
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Perfect Man: The Muscular Life and Times of Eugen Sandow, Victorian Strongman written by David Waller and published by Victorian Secrets. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Conor Heffernan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030637271
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The History of Physical Culture in Ireland written by Conor Heffernan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to deal with physical culture in an Irish context, covering educational, martial and recreational histories. Deemed by many to be a precursor to the modern interest in health and gym cultures, physical culture was a late nineteenth and early twentieth century interest in personal health which spanned national and transnational histories. It encompassed gymnasiums, homes, classrooms, depots and military barracks. Prior to this work, physical culture’s emergence in Ireland has not received thorough academic attention. Addressing issues of gender, childhood, nationalism, and commerce, this book is unique within an Irish context in studying an Irish manifestation of a global phenomenon. Tracing four decades of Irish history, the work also examines the influence of foreign fitness entrepreneurs in Ireland and contrasts them with their Irish counterparts.
Author : Earle E. Liederman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Secrets of Strength written by Earle E. Liederman and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack Thomas Grein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book 1900-1901 written by Jack Thomas Grein and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Author : Conor Heffernan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135040165X
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Indian Club Swinging and the Birth of Global Fitness written by Conor Heffernan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging in colonial India, the fitness fad that was Indian Club Swinging became a global exercise practice in the early 19th century. Used by physicians, soldiers, gymnasts, children and athletes alike, clubs were used to solve numerous social concerns and ills, and often prescribed to treat everything from depression to spinal abnormalities. This book provides a definitive account of the rise and spread of club swinging as it spread from India to Europe and America, asking why and how it became so popular. Discussing the global, commercial fitness culture of the 19th century, Indian Club Swinging and the Birth of Global Fitness explores how the popularity of this exercise reflected much deeper global and domestic concerns about body image, military preparation and education. Addressing broader questions about nationalism, gender, race and popular commerce across the British Empire, it highlights the origins of our modern transnational fitness culture and shows how it intersected with global and colonial understandings of health, medicine and education.
Author : Paul R. Deslandes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022677161X
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain written by Paul R. Deslandes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting the Stage: The Foundations of Modern Male Beauty -- Physiognomists and Photographers -- Beauty Experts and Hairdressing Entrepreneurs -- Artists, Athletes, and Celebrities -- Poets, Soldiers, and Monuments -- Men on Display in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries -- Brylcreem Men, Cinema Idols, and Uniforms -- Teenagers, Bodybuilders, and Models -- Youthful Rebels, Gender-Benders, and Gay Men -- Insecure Men, Metrosexuals, and Spornosexuals.
Author : Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Country Life written by Thomas William Hodgson Crosland and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francois Johannes Cleophas
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031667271
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (316 download)
Download or read book Physical Education and Physical Culture in South Africa, 1837–1966 written by Francois Johannes Cleophas and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1198 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vike Martina Plock
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813042968
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Joyce, Medicine, and Modernity written by Vike Martina Plock and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2010-01-03 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Joyce's interest in medicine has been well established--he attempted to embark on medical studies no fewer than three times--but a comprehensive assessment of the influence his interest in medicine had on his work has been lacking until now. Joyce, Medicine, and Modernity fills that gap as the first sustained study of Joyce's artistic uses of turn-of-the-century medical discourses. In this wide-ranging study, author Vike Plock balances close readings of Joyce's major texts with thorough archival research that retrieves principal late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical debates. The result is a fascinating book that details the ways in which Joyce reconciled, integrated, and blurred the paradigmatic boundaries between scientific and humanist learning.
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Total Pages : 1196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Reference Catalogue of Current Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
