Sport in the Global Society
Playing on the Periphery: Sport, Identity and Memory
1st Edition
By Tara Brabazon
September 15, 2008
Part of the Sport in the Global Society series, this innovative and creative text explores collective history, memory, and sport culture, tracking the passage of sports away from England. The author investigates why ‘elite’ English sports – such as rugby and cricket – became national sports in New ...
Leisure and Recreation in a Victorian Mining Community: The Social Economy of Leisure in North-East England, 1820-1914
1st Edition
By Alan Metcalfe
September 01, 2008
'Amusements they must have, or life would hardly be worth living...' Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, 1895 This text explores life in the mining villages of the north-east of England in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - a time of massive social and industrial change. The sporting lives of ...
Sport Tourism
1st Edition
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By Heather J. Gibson
January 25, 2008
The study of sport tourism is on the cusp of moving from a descriptive phase of research into an analytical phase. Consequently, many academics and graduate students are searching for theories upon which to ground their work. This book draws upon theories and concepts from sociology and ...
Sport, Civil Liberties and Human Rights
1st Edition
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By Richard Giulianotti, David McArdle
December 24, 2007
What is the relationship between sport and human rights? Can sport protect and enhance the human rights of competitors and sport workers? Can it also undermine those rights? These topical issues are among the many that are explored in this groundbreaking volume which analyzes how sports both ...
Olympism: The Global Vision: From Nationalism to Internationalism
1st Edition
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By Boria Majumdar, Sandra Collins
December 15, 2007
The collection starts from the premise that Olympism and the Olympic Games make sense only when they are placed within the broader national, colonial and post colonial contexts and argues that sport not only influences politics and vice-versa, but that the two are inseparable. Sport is not only ...
This Great Symbol: Pierre de Coubertin and the Origins of the Modern Olympic Games
1st Edition
By John J. Macaloon
November 24, 2007
This Great Symbol is the definitive study of the origins of the modern Olympic Games and of their founder, Pierre de Coubertin, whose ideological stamp the Olympics still bear. Behind this fascinating blend of biography and history lies an impressive framework of cultural, social, and psychological...
The Football Manager: A History
1st Edition
By Neil Carter
October 17, 2006
This clear and accessible book is the first in-depth history of the role of the football manager in British football, tracing a path from Victorian-era amateurism to the highly paid motivational specialists and media personalities of the twenty-first century. Using original source materials, the ...
The Global Politics of Sport: The Role of Global Institutions in Sport
1st Edition
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By Lincoln Allison
May 24, 2006
Sport presents one of the most advanced cases of 'globalisation,' arguably because there are fewer cultural and political obstacles to the development of trade and international power in sport than there are in other fields. Thus there has been a change in the nature of the politics of sport since...
The Magic of Indian Cricket: Cricket and Society in India
1st Edition
By Mihir Bose
April 28, 2006
In the last twenty years, Indian cricket has been transformed. With the arrival of global television networks, mass-media coverage and multinational sponsors, cricket has become big business and India has become the economic driving force in the world game. For the first time a developing country ...
A Sport-Loving Society: Victorian and Edwardian Middle-Class England at Play
1st Edition
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By J A Mangan
February 16, 2006
In a time of unprecedented political and economic transformation, the middle classes of Victorian and Edwardian England became principal players in a new social order. Nowhere did their culture, values and identity gain clearer expression than in their sports, and their influence is still felt in ...
Japan, Sport and Society: Tradition and Change in a Globalizing World
1st Edition
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By Joseph Maguire, Masayoshi Nakayama
February 15, 2006
Evolving for centuries in relative isolation, sport in Japan developed a unique character reflective of Japanese culture and society. In recent decades, Japan's drive towards cultural and economic modernization has consciously incorporated a modernization of its sports cultures. Japan, Sport and&...
Lost Histories of Indian Cricket: Battles Off the Pitch
1st Edition
By Boria Majumdar
January 20, 2006
Lost Histories of Indian Cricket studies the personalities and controversies that have shaped Indian cricket over the years and brings to life the intensity surrounding India's national game. It may be true that that cricket today arouses more passions in India than in any other cricket playing ...