Sport in the Global Society
Football: The First Hundred Years: The Untold Story
1st Edition
By Adrian Harvey
September 26, 2005
The story of the creation of Britain's national game has often been told. According to the accepted wisdom, the refined football games created by English public schools in the 1860s subsequently became the sports of the masses. Football, The First Hundred Years, provides a revisionist history of ...
Soccer and Disaster: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Darby, Martin Johnes, Gavin Mellor
July 19, 2005
The word disaster is much used in the world of soccer - conceding a penalty, a sending off, an untimely defeat. Comparing these with real life disasters puts things into perspective and the results of the games become insignificant. Soccer is not more important than life or death!For the first time...
Terrace Heroes: The Life and Times of the 1930s Professional Footballer
1st Edition
By Graham Kelly
February 10, 2005
The 1930s saw the birth of the football idol - prototype for today's powerful media sport stars. The players of the 1930s were the first generation of professionals, yet until recently the life and careers of footballers of this generation has been little studied. In 1930s Britain, ...
Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players: A Sociological Study of the Development of Rugby Football
2nd Edition
By Kenneth Sheard, Eric Dunning
February 02, 2005
First published in 1979, this classic study of the development of rugby from folk game to its modern Union and League forms has become a seminal text in sport history. In a new epilogue the authors provide sociological analysis of the major developments in international ruby that have taken place ...
Italian Fascism and the Female Body: Sport, Submissive Women and Strong Mothers
1st Edition
By Gigliola Gori
November 03, 2004
This is the first text to examine women and sport in Italy during the period 1861-1945. To qualify and quantify the impact of fascism on Italian Women's sport, the author first of all examines the pre-fascist period in terms of female physical culture. The text then describes how during the fascist...
Disreputable Pleasures: Less Virtuous Victorians at Play
1st Edition
Edited
By Mike Huggins, J A Mangan
October 28, 2004
Many historians have claimed that respectability was the sharpest line of social division in Victorian society, even that the line between the 'respectable' and 'unrespectable' was more significant than between rich and poor. This irreverent and revisionist collection argues that they have ...
Sites of Sport: Space, Place and Experience
1st Edition
Edited
By John Bale, Patricia Vertinsky
August 13, 2004
The study of built environments such as gymnasiums, football stadiums, swimmimg pools and skating rinks provides unique information about the historical enclosure of the gendered and sexualised body, the body's capabilities, needs and desires. It illuminates the tensions between the globalising ...
The Making of New Zealand Cricket: 1832-1914
1st Edition
By Greg Ryan
July 23, 2004
It is generally forgotten that cricket rather than rugby union was the 'national game' in New Zealand until the early years of the twentieth century. This book shows why and how cricket developed in New Zealand and how its character changed across time. Greg Ryan examines the emergence and growth ...
Ethnicity, Sport, Identity: Struggles for Status
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Ritchie
July 21, 2004
The struggle for status within sport is a microcosm of the struggle for rights, freedom and recognition within society. Injustices within sport often reflect larger injustices in society as a whole. In South Africa, for example, sport has been crucial in advancing the rights and liberty of ...
Serious Sport: J.A. Mangan's Contribution to the History of Sport
1st Edition
Edited
By Scott Crawford
July 21, 2004
Trial-blazer and mentor, Professor J.A. Mangan is a distinguished scholar in the fields of sports history whose work has inspired a generation of historians and social scientists across the globe. His seminal book on athleticism and imperialism commanded attention and applause from a broad range of...
Disciplining Bodies in the Gymnasium: Memory, Monument, Modernity
1st Edition
By Sherry Mckay, Patricia Vertinsky
October 01, 2003
Architecture and design have been used to exert control over bodies, across lines of class, gender and race. They regulate access to certain spaces and facilities, impose physical or psychological barriers, and make particular activities possible for specific groups.Built in 1951, the War Memorial ...
Running Cultures: Racing in Time and Space
1st Edition
By John Bale
September 01, 2003
Running is one of the world's most widely practiced sports and recreations but until now it has intended to elude serious study outside of the natural sciences. John Bale brings the sport into the realm of the humanities by drawing on sources including literature, poetry, film, art and sculpture as...