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Bodybuilding - History

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    Minding muscle : the technologies of bodybuilding from the turn-of-the-century machine-man to the new millennium's ULTRAGIRL / by Jacqueline Brady.

    | Brady, Jacqueline. | Date: 2000
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    Making the American body : the remarkable saga of the men and women whose feats, feuds, and passions shaped fitness history / Jonathan Black.

    | Black, Jonathan, 1943- | Date: [2013]
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    "Der neue Mensch" : Körperkultur im Kaiserreich und in der Weimarer Republik / Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe.

    | Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe | Date: 2004
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    The sculpture machine : physical culture and body politics in the age of Empire / Michael Anton Budd.

    | Budd, Michael Anton, 1955- | Date: 1997
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    The perfect man : the muscular life and times of Eugen Sandow, Victorian strongman / by David Waller.

    | Waller, David | Date: 2011
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Physical fitness - History
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