Sport in the Global Society
Soccer in South Asia: Empire, Nation, Diaspora
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Dimeo, James Mills
September 01, 2001
The place of football in the colonial and post-colonial past is explored and both British and Portuguese influences on the development of the game are considered. Contemporary issues such as the impact of the professional league in India and the role of UK Asians in the organization of the Indian ...
Europe, Sport, World: Shaping Global Societies
1st Edition
By J. A. Mangan
May 01, 2001
The sports of Europe and the United States were imitated and assimilated and became symbols of national and cosmopolitan identity. This work examines the national and international importance of sport and its role in shaping post-millennium global culture....
Rain Stops Play: Cricketing Climates
1st Edition
By Andrew Hignell
April 30, 2001
A geographical history of cricket in England and Wales in a global context....
Freeing the Female Body: Inspirational Icons
1st Edition
Edited
By Fan Hong
December 30, 2000
This collection records the bravery of these forgotten inspirational figures whose determination challenged and overcame convention, custom and prejudice to free women from the ranks of the sexualized, controlled and oppressed....
Law and Sport in Contemporary Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Steven Greenfield, Guy Osborn
November 29, 2000
As the commercialization of sport grows, the need for proper regulation increases. In legal terms, sport is part of the entertainment and media industries which are subject to rapid change. This work brings together experts in many fields to analyze these changes and to discuss the implications of ...
The Changing Face of the Football Business: Supporters Direct
1st Edition
Edited
By Sean Hamil, Jonathan Michie, Christine Oughton, Steven Warby
November 01, 2000
This examination of changes taking place in the world of football focuses on its growing commercialization. It covers such topics as fans becoming shareholders, with a say in the running of the clubs, and the setting-up of a government-sponsored scheme to support shareholder trusts....
Making European Masculinities: Sport, Europe, Gender
1st Edition
By J. A. Mangan
October 01, 2000
As sport has grown, progressively replacing religion, in its power to excite passion, provide emotional escape, offer fraternal (and increasingly sororital) bonding, it has come to loom larger and larger in the lives of Europeans and others. It has become an inescapable reality linking public ...
Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School: The Emergence and Consolidation of an Educational Ideology
1st Edition
By J. A. Mangan
September 29, 2000
Games obsessed the Victorian and Edwardian public schools. The obsession has become widely known as athleticism. When it appeared in 1981, this book was the first major study of the games ethos which dominated the lives of many Victorian and Edwardian public schoolboys. Written with Professor ...
Sport in Australasian Society: Past and Present
1st Edition
Edited
By J A Mangan, John Nauright
September 01, 2000
As Sydney prepares to host the 2000 Olympic games, this study assesses the cultural impact of sport on the Australasian countries. Here, as in other parts of the world, sport is taken as an assertion of both individual and group identity, a demonstration of modernity and a source of personal, local...
Football Culture: Local Conflicts, Global Visions
1st Edition
Edited
By Gerry Finn, Richard Giulianotti
April 29, 2000
These essays provide a critical investigation of football cultures, examining local and national impacts of the game's new millennial order over five continents....
Superman Supreme: Fascist Body as Political Icon - Global Fascism
1st Edition
By J. A. Mangan
April 29, 2000
The supremacy of the global fascist superman never became a reality but was certainly an intention. This work explores the use of the image of the male body in European, American and Asian fascism of varying degrees and various interpretations, and the differences and similarities involved....
The Future of Football: Challenges for the Twenty-first Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Jon Garland, Dominic Malcolm, Mike Rowe
April 29, 2000
World football has undergone unprecedented change over the past decade. On the field, the richest European clubs have retained their pre-eminence, but with multinational playing squads backed up by global marketing industries. Club ownership rests increasingly with impersonal shareholders, rather ...