Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 3
6. Part One: Classical Lineages
7. What Is Sport? Arts of Rural Sport and the Art of Poetry, 1650–1800 21
8. Funeral Games: Ludic Events, Imperial Violence, Authorial Encounters 49
9. Fencing and the Market in Aristocratic Masculinity 66
10. Part Two: Sporting Animals and Their Uses
11. Turf Wars: Violence, Politics, and the Newmarket Riot of 1751 93
12. Animals as Heroes of the Hunt 114
13. Horse Racing in Early Colonial Algeria: From Anglophilia to Arabomania 136
14. Part Three: The Mediation of Sports
15. Sport and the Body Politic: Athletic Competitions in Rousseau’s Republican Theory 163
16. Writing Fighting/Fighting Writing: Jon Badcock and the Conflicted Nature of Sports Journalism in the Regency 179
17. At Play in the Mountains: The Development of British Mountaineering in the Romantic Period 196
18. Part Four: The Sporting Body
19. Sports, Recreation, and Medicine in Sixteenth- to Eighteenth-Century Italy and France 219
20. Healing Hysteric Bodies: Women and Physical Exercise in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 236
21. “The Physical Powers of Man”: The Emergence of Physical Training in the Eighteenth Century 250
22. What is Training? 272
23. Pilgrim, Pundit, Photographer, Spy: The Ambiguous Origins of Himalayan Mountaineering 297
24. Bibliography 315
25. Contributors 347
26. Index 353