欧美体育文化（英文版）

Unit 1 Sports in the Ancient Greece and Rome

Text A Sport culture in ancient Athens and Sparta

Text B The gladiators of Rome: blood sport in the ancient empire

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Unit 2 Sport in Medieval & Pre-modern Era

Text A Sports in the Medieval Times

Text B Humanism movement & sport culture

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Unit 3 Emergence of Modern Sport in Europe

Text A The factors that affect the modern sport

Text B Modern sport and education

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Unit 4 Rise & Expansion of the Modern Olympics

Text A The philosophy connotation of modern Olympics

Text B The expansion of Olympics: Western culture's domination

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Unit 5 European Sport in Globalization Era

Text A A football world: The history and its globalization

Text B Why are the European and American sports worlds so different?

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Unit 6 Sport from Colonization to Antebellum

Text A Sports in colonial era

Text B The health reform during the early republic period

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Unit 7 The Forming of American Sport in the Gilded Age

Text A Baseball v. cricket: the rise of American ideology

Text B The rise & development of intercollegiate sport

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Unit 8 Sport and Social Change in the Progressive Era

Text A Sport & americanization of ethnic groups

Text B Sport & colonialism

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Unit 9 Sport as Popular Culture

Text A Media & the commercialization of sport

Text B Professional sport & labor relations

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Unit 10 Major Problems of Sport and Society

Text A Sport and civil rights movement

Text B Sport and women's movement

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Unit 11 New Forms of Sport in 21st Century

Text A Sociology of alternative sports

Text B A comparison between esports and traditional Sports

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