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History of Exercise / Training / Fitness

Exhibiting 10 entries found in the GMN corpus.

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YearTitle & TagsAuthor(s)
1864The muscles and their story, from the earliest times: Including the whole text of Mercurialis, and the opinions of other writers, ancient and modern, on mental and bodily development
1989The eternally wounded woman: Women, doctors, and exercise in the late nineteenth century.
1995Kinetic jottings: Rare and curious books in the library of the old Royal Central Institute of Gymnastics. An illustrated and annotated catalogue.
1997De la gymnastique aux sports modernes: Histoire des doctrines de l'éducation physique.
1999Leib und Seele. Eine Kulturgeschichte des gesunden Lebens.
1999Physical culture & body beautiful: Purposive exercise in the lives of American women 1800-1875.
2008De arte gymnastica. The art of gymnastics. Critical edition by Concetta Pennuto. English translation by Vivian Nutton.
2011A history of British sports medicine.
2012Medicine, sport and the body: A historical perspective.
2015An illustrated history of health and fitness, from pre-History to our post-modern world.