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Africa, Football and FIFA
Politics, Colonialism and Resistance
Av Paul Darby
Häftad, 2002
851 kr
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This book explores the role of FIFA in brokering the development of football in Africa and its relationship with that continent's football associations and regional governing body. Africa is no longer on the periphery of world football but the economic disparities between the first and the third …
Sport, Culture and History
Region, nation and globe
Inbunden, 2008
2525 kr
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In addition to being an internationally recognised pioneer of sports history, Brian Stoddart has also been a leading thinker and influence in the field. That influence has crossed several areas of history, sociology, business, politics and media aspects of sports studies, and has drawn deeply upon …
Disreputable Pleasures
Less Virtuous Victorians at Play
Häftad, 2004
957 kr
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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 …
Global Politics of Sport
The Role of Global Institutions in Sport
Inbunden, 2005
2525 kr
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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 …
Global Politics of Sport
The Role of Global Institutions in Sport
Häftad, 2005
827 kr
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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 …
Sport Tourism
Inbunden, 2006
2525 kr
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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 …
Matters of Sport
Essays in Honour of Eric Dunning
Av Dominic Malcolm, Ivan Waddington
Inbunden, 2007
3168 kr
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Matters of Sport is a tribute to Eric Dunning, the leading sports sociologist in the English-speaking world. This book addresses Dunning's contributions to the sociological and historical study of sport, covering key topics such as hooliganism, celebrity and gender relations.A broad range of …
Soccer's Missing Men
Schoolteachers and the Spread of Association Football
Inbunden, 2009
2680 kr
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Now unknown or forgotten, influential schoolmasters took the game of association football to many parts of England. They had several roles: they brought the game to individual schools, they established regional and national leagues and associations, and they founded professional football clubs. …
Social History of Indian Football
Striving to Score
Av Kausik Bandyopadhyay, Boria Majumdar
Inbunden, 2006
1575 kr
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A Social History of Indian Football covers the period 1850-2004. It considers soccer as a derivative sport, creatively and imaginatively adapted to suit modern Indian socio-cultural needs - designed to fulfil political imperatives and satisfy economic aspirations. The book is concerned with the …
Football: The First Hundred Years
The Untold Story
Inbunden, 2005
2600 kr
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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 …
Football: The First Hundred Years
The Untold Story
Häftad, 2005
851 kr
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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 …
Magic of Indian Cricket
Cricket and Society in India
Av Mihir Bose
Inbunden, 2006
3271 kr
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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 …
Magic of Indian Cricket
Cricket and Society in India
Av Mihir Bose
Häftad, 2006
878 kr
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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 …
Leisure and Recreation in a Victorian Mining Community
The Social Economy of Leisure in North-East England, 1820-1914
Inbunden, 2005
2680 kr
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'Amusements they must have, or life would hardly be worth living...' Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, 1895This 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 …
Lost Histories of Indian Cricket
Battles Off the Pitch
Inbunden, 2005
2680 kr
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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 …
Lost Histories of Indian Cricket
Battles Off the Pitch
Häftad, 2005
878 kr
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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 …
Sport in South Asian Society
Past and Present
Inbunden, 2005
2525 kr
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A detailed study of sports' arrival, spread and advance in colonial and post-colonial South Asia. A selection of articles addresses critical issues of nationalism, communalism, commercialism and gender through the lens of sport. This book makes the point that the social histories of South Asian …
Native Americans and Sport in North America
Other People's Games
Av C. King
Inbunden, 2007
1624 kr
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Taking examples from the United States and Canada, this comprehensive text offers compassionate and critical accounts of the Native American sporting experience. It challenges popular images of indigenous athletes and athletics; it explores Native American participation in and appropriation of …
Beijing 2008: Preparing for Glory
Chinese Challenge in the 'Chinese Century'
Inbunden, 2008
2680 kr
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Beijing 2008: Preparing for Glory - Chinese Challenge in the 'Chinese Century' brings together international scholars with an interest in sport and politics and sinologists with an interest in China - past, present and future - to explore global reaction to the Beijing Olympics - China's …
Politics of Sport in South Asia
Av Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty, Shantanu Chakrabarti m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
1601 kr
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Behind the spectacle of entertainment, sport is a subject with political issues at every level. These issues range from the social, with divisions created along gender and class lines, to the use of sport to pursue diplomatic and statecraft goals. In addition, some sports are positioned and …
1940 Tokyo Games: The Missing Olympics
Japan, the Asian Olympics and the Olympic Movement
Inbunden, 2008
2600 kr
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By representing their experience of modernity as different from the West in their respective Olympic Games, Asian nations reveal much about the ambitions and anxieties of being an Asian host in the continuing western Olympic hegemony. This original work explores the encounter between ‘the East and …
Football Manager
A History
Av Neil Carter
Inbunden, 2006
1624 kr
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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 …
Football Manager
A History
Av Neil Carter
Häftad, 2006
598 kr
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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 …
Fringe Nations in World Soccer
Av Kausik Bandyopadhyay, Sabyasachi Mallick
Inbunden, 2007
2525 kr
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Soccer is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world, gaining huge media coverage and reaching all levels of society in countries all around the world. More than just entertainment, soccer has proved to be a reflection of national, cultural, community and ethnic identity as well as an …
Modern Sport - The Global Obsession
Inbunden, 2006
1624 kr
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Sport has become more than a simple physical expression or game- it now pervades all societies at all levels and has become bound up in nationalism, entertainment, patriotism and culture. Now a global obsession, sport has infiltrated into all areas of modern life and despite noble ideals that sport …
Muscular Christianity and the Colonial and Post-Colonial World
Inbunden, 2007
2525 kr
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This Volume explores the enormous impact the ethos of Muscular Christianity has had an on modern civil society in English-speaking nations and among the peoples they colonized. First codified by British Christian Socialists in the mid-nineteenth century, explicitly religious forms of the ideology …
This Great Symbol
Pierre de Coubertin and the Origins of the Modern Olympic Games
Inbunden, 2007
2680 kr
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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 …
Football Fans Around the World
From Supporters to Fanatics
Av Sean Brown
Inbunden, 2008
2680 kr
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This volume investigates the way in which football supporters around the world express themselves as followers of teams, whether they be professional, amateur or national. The diverse geographical and cultural array of contributions to this volume highlights not only the variety of how fans express …
Sport and American Society
Exceptionalism, Insularity, ‘Imperialism’
Inbunden, 2007
1530 kr
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A special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport, this collection of provocative essays explores the many faces of sport in America. Drawing upon insights from anthropology, history, philosophy and sociology and with reference throughout to politics and economics, the …
Cricket in Colonial India 1780 – 1947
Inbunden, 2008
2525 kr
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This is an exacting social history of Indian cricket between 1780 and 1947. It considers cricket as a derivative sport, creatively adapted to suit modern Indian socio-cultural needs, fulfil political imperatives and satisfy economic aspirations. Majumdar argues that cricket was a means to cross …
