Sport, Technology and Society: From Snow Shoes to Racing Skis

organization of time and an economy geared to the accumulation of capital, were all interwoven with the upsurge of sport in the nineteenth century. In Germany, where industrialization did not take hold until the second half of the century, the triumph of sport over other forms of physical activity, in particular German Turnen, only manifested itself towards the end of the nineteenth century. 76 CULTURE, SPORT, SOCIETY 41css06.qxd 14/03/2001 12:44 Page 76