A brand new Pocket Guide which charts the concise history of sport in Wales since 1800. The book locates the character and structure of sport within the wider social, political and economic context that shaped it.
Martin Johnes is lecturer in Sports Studies at St. Martin's College, Lancaster.
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This overview of sport in Wales is a valuable and most welcome addition to the 'Pocket Guide' series and succeeds in being both readable and thought-provokingThe strength of the volume is the author's ability to contextualize sport with reference to the political, social, economic and cultural history of Walesprovides a valuable discussion of the role of sport in 'forging a wider popular sense of Welsh nationhood' It is a remarkable and admirable achievement'.
