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This book examines how and why sport in general, and football in
particular, entered the country and developed successfully between
1890 and the 1920s, while placing that growth within the context of
Spain's larger historical experience. The introduction of sport in
the late 19th century permanently changed the day-to-day lives of
thousands of Spaniards. Initially, the country's growing urban
middle-classes embraced the new activity as they built community
identities and were introduced to it through economic and
educational connections to foreigners. To justify this, these
proponents argued that the adoption of physical education and sport
would physically regenerate the nation. In response, well-rounded
sporting communities grew, developed medical arguments, and even
debated the activity's appropriateness for different groups like
women. As sport spread, it produced the first football clubs around
the turn of the century. Subsequently, in the 1910s and early
1920s, football established the structural institutions, like
stadiums, stars, regulatory bodies, and a press, that enabled its
rapid expansion as a mass consumer activity in the late 1920s.
Regeneration through Sport looks at how this process embedded the
sport within the national culture and established itself as a
politically neutral activity before the Spanish Second Republic,
allowing it to become almost ubiquitous today. This book will
appeal to researchers, students and scholars alike who are
interested in the history of sport, Spain, and European history.
Alfred Tarski (1901-1983) was a renowned Polish/American
mathematician, a giant of the twentieth century, who helped
establish the foundations of geometry, set theory, model theory,
algebraic logic and universal algebra. Throughout his career, he
taught mathematics and logic at universities and sometimes in
secondary schools. Many of his writings before 1939 were in Polish
and remained inaccessible to most mathematicians and historians
until now. This self-contained book focuses on Tarski's early
contributions to geometry and mathematics education, including the
famous Banach-Tarski paradoxical decomposition of a sphere as well
as high-school mathematical topics and pedagogy. These themes are
significant since Tarski's later research on geometry and its
foundations stemmed in part from his early employment as a
high-school mathematics teacher and teacher-trainer. The book
contains careful translations and much newly uncovered social
background of these works written during Tarski's years in Poland.
Alfred Tarski: Early Work in Poland serves the mathematical,
educational, philosophical and historical communities by publishing
Tarski's early writings in a broadly accessible form, providing
background from archival work in Poland and updating Tarski's
bibliography. A list of errata can be found on the author Smith's
personal webpage.
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