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Europe versus America?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2011

Jonathan Morris
Jonathan Morris*
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School of Humanities, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB, UK. E-mail: j.2.morris@herts.ac.uk
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European Review , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , 30 August 2011 , pp. 611 - 616
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Copyright © Academia Europaea 2011

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1. In Italy, for example, serious works on the history of sport were already being published in the 1980s, such as Pivato's, S. (1986) Sia lodato Bartoli. Ideologia, cultura e miti dello sporto catolico (Rome: Ed. Lavoro, Rome).Google Scholar
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