Sport in the Global Society
A Social History of Indian Football: Striving to Score
1st Edition
By Kausik Bandyopadhyay, Boria Majumdar
June 17, 2016
A Social History of Indian Football covers the period 1850-2004. It considers soccer as a derivative sport, creatively and imaginatively adapted to suit modern Indian socio-cultural needs - designed to fulfil political imperatives and satisfy economic aspirations. The book is concerned with the ...
Emigrant Players: Sport and the Irish Diaspora
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Darby, David Hassan
December 07, 2015
Ireland and its inhabitants have often been described as being ‘sports mad’. As a relatively small geographical entity, Ireland, north and south, has produced a disproportionately high number of world class sports men and women who have excelled at the highest levels of their chosen sport. The ...
Football: From England to the World
1st Edition
Edited
By Dolores Martinez, Projit B. Mukharji
December 07, 2015
This book is a fascinating journey through a series of scholarly articles. The journey begins by tracing one of the most significant stories in the popularization of Association Football. In the next leg of the journey it charts the diverse and changing face of the modern British game. It then ...
Militarism, Hunting, Imperialism: 'Blooding' The Martial Male
1st Edition
By J.A. Mangan, Callum McKenzie
December 07, 2015
The late Victorian and Edwardian officer class viewed hunting and big game hunting in particular, as a sound preparation for imperial warfare. For the imperial officer in the making, the ‘blooding’ hunting ritual was a visible ‘hallmark’ of stirling martial masculinity. Sir Henry Newbolt, the ...
The Balkan Games and Balkan Politics in the Interwar Years 1929 – 1939: Politicians in Pursuit of Peace
1st Edition
By Penelope Kissoudi
December 07, 2015
The Balkan Games resulted on the one hand from the growth of modern European sport and the unsatisfactory performances of the Balkan athletes at national and international level, and on the other hand, from a desire to bring the Balkan peoples together in peace and concord. The Games were initiated...
Soccer's Missing Men: Schoolteachers and the Spread of Association Football
1st Edition
By J.A. Mangan, Colm Hickey
October 06, 2015
Now unknown or forgotten, influential schoolmasters took the game of association football to many parts of England. They had several roles: they brought the game to individual schools, they established regional and national leagues and associations, and they founded professional football ...
A Social History of Swimming in England, 1800 – 1918: Splashing in the Serpentine
1st Edition
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By Christopher Love
August 07, 2015
Covering a time of great social and technological change, this history traces the development of the four classic aquatic disciplines of competitive swimming, diving, synchronized swimming and water polo, with its main focus on racing. Working from the beginnings of municipal recreational swimming,...
Cricket in Colonial India 1780 – 1947
1st Edition
By Boria Majumdar
April 23, 2015
This is an exacting social history of Indian cricket between 1780 and 1947. It considers cricket as a derivative sport, creatively adapted to suit modern Indian socio-cultural needs, fulfil political imperatives and satisfy economic aspirations. Majumdar argues that cricket was a means to ...
Football and Community in the Global Context: Studies in Theory and Practice
1st Edition
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By Adam Brown, Tim Crabbe
April 23, 2015
Football clubs across the world continue to embody many of the collective symbols, identifications and processes of connectivity which have long been associated with the notion of ‘community’. In recent years, however, the very term ‘community’ has become the focus of renewed interest within ...
Crafting Patriotism for Global Dominance: America at the Olympics
1st Edition
By Mark Dyreson
April 09, 2015
In 2008 China plans to use the Olympic Games to remake its national identity in the global marketplace. In so doing China treads the path blazed by the United States. For more than a century the U.S. has used the Olympic Games to construct national identity, create communal memory, and ...
Gender, Sport, Science: Selected writings of Roberta J. Park
1st Edition
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By J. A. Mangan, Patricia Vertinsky
April 09, 2015
Roberta J. Park has been throughout her distinguished career a scholar with a mission - to win academic recognition of the significance of the body in culture and cultures. Her scholarship has earned her global esteem in the disciplines of Physical Education and Sports Studies for its penetrating ...
Globalised Football: Nations and Migration, the City and the Dream
1st Edition
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By Nina Tiesler, Joao Nuno Coelho
April 28, 2014
When studying the social phenomena in and around football, five major aspects of globalisation processes become evident: international migration, the global flow of capital, the syncretistic nature of tradition and modernity in contemporary culture, new experiences of time and space and the ...