Sport, History and Culture – serie
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Ladies and Lords
A History of Women’s Cricket in Britain
Häftad, 2019
839 kr
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This book offers the first ever academic study of women’s cricket in Britain from its origins in the 18th century to the present day. It examines women’s cricket from grassroots to international level, in schools, universities, the workplace and clubs. The book draws on a wealth of new source …
Crossing the Line?
The Press and Anglo-German Football Rivalry
Av Christoph Wagner, Richard Holt m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
567 kr
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Franz Beckenbauer once observed that, in England, «war correspondents get their say whenever their team plays us.» In Crossing the Line?, Christoph Wagner surveys German football rivalry in the second half of the twentieth century as it was played out on the pitch and in the press. The Second World …
Football and Fascism in the Iberian Peninsula
Av Daniele Serapiglia, Juan Antonio Simón
Häftad, 2026
603 kr
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Football and Fascism in the Iberian Peninsula offers a compelling look into how the Francoist and Salazarist regimes in Spain and Portugal used football as a tool for ideological control, national identity building, and propaganda. Drawing on rich archival sources and a comparative historical …
Fateful Love
Essays on Football in the North-East of England 1880-1930
Häftad, 2021
756 kr
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How did the world’s most popular sport begin? How was the ancient family of pastimes called «folk football» transformed into a new codified game - «association football» - which attracted such large numbers of players and paying spectators? Gavin Kitching tackles the question through a strikingly …
Physical Education in Irish Schools, 1900-2000: A History
Av Conor Curran
Häftad, 2022
650 kr
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This book is the first major examination of the history of physical education in Irish primary and second level schools in the twentieth century. Set within the context of major international developments in the subject, it examines its state in these schools prior to the partition of Ireland in …
Histories of Women’s Football in Britain and Ireland
Av Fiona Skillen, Helena Byrne m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
676 kr
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This book brings together a range of researchers to explore the growth and development of the women’s game in Britain and Ireland. They are active across a diverse range of fields, from historians and heritage practitioners, to those from the arts such as playwrights and documentary directors. This …
Sport in Paris
Retracing the Culture of Play and Games in the City of Light (1854–2024)
Häftad, 2024
584 kr
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This edited volume proposes to revisit the development of recreational and professional sporting activities in the French capital between 1854 and 2024. It comprises fifteen chapters surveying the rich and multifaceted history of athletic practices in Paris, and constitutes the first comprehensive …
Sport in Victorian Dublin
Häftad, 2026
590 kr
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This book is the first full-length academic study of sport in nineteenth-century Dublin. Drawing extensively from historical and archival material, it maps out the emergence and development of modern sport in the city as traditional pastimes were progressively replaced by formally organized games. …
Games, Greek and Pluck
Classicism, Masculinity, Elite Education and British Sport, 1850–1914
Av Andy Carter, Richard Holt m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
705 kr
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Public school education in the second half of the nineteenth century was completely dominated by classics and sport. Rejecting the view that these were competing strands resulting in friction between aesthetic scholars and athletic philistines, this book shows how classicism and athleticism were …
Women, Sport and Modernity in Interwar Britain
Häftad, 2013
885 kr
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This book offers a unique examination of women’s increasing involvement in sport during the period 1919-1939. Focusing primarily on sites of participation, it analyses where and how women accessed sport and their participation across class, age and marital groups. It also demonstrates the diverse …
Professionals, Amateurs and Performance
Sports Coaching in England, 1789–1914
Häftad, 2012
739 kr
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This book was shortlisted for the Lord Aberdare Prize 2013.While the relationship between amateurism and sport is well documented, the impact of this ethos on the professional coaches and trainers who directed and supported elite sporting performance has been entirely overlooked. This book explores …
History of Football in North and South Korea c.1910–2002
Development and Diffusion
Häftad, 2015
849 kr
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For the Koreans, no sport has surpassed football in terms of its popularity and national importance, from the Japanese colonization era onwards. However, its importance has developed over time as a result of unusual and agonizing historical events, including the tragic split between North and South …
Cultures of Boxing
Av David Scott
Häftad, 2015
772 kr
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Bringing together boxing writers from different cultural and disciplinary perspectives, this book offers a vital and original contribution to the understanding of this enduringly fascinating and controversial sport.This collected volume investigates what is at stake in boxing in the modern world by …
Football, Ethnicity and Community
The Life of an African-Caribbean Football Club
Häftad, 2016
878 kr
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Winner of the British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2017 This book is a case study of an African-Caribbean-founded football club, Meadebrook Cavaliers, from the English East Midlands. Covering the years 1970 to 2010, it seeks to address the paucity of research on the British …
Building Europe with the Ball
Turning Points in the Europeanization of Football, 1905–1995
Av Philippe Vonnard, Nicolas Bancel
Häftad, 2016
812 kr
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Since 1990, football history has become increasingly important within the field of sport science, yet few studies have centred on the Europeanization of the game from the interwar period onwards. This period saw the creation of a sovereign institution dedicated to European football, the …
European Football During the Second World War
Training and Entertainment, Ideology and Propaganda
Av Markwart Herzog, Fabian Brändle
Häftad, 2018
699 kr
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When German troops marched into Poland on 1 September 1939, this also affected sport – sometimes dramatically. Official propaganda no longer viewed football as a game that was played for fun, but one that could be instrumentalized for political goals and military strategy. Due to the …
