How Football Began: A Global History of How the World's Football Codes Were Born

ISBN-13: 9781138038745 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 208 str.

Tony Collins

Opis

This fascinating history considers why football grew from a marginal and un-organised activity into the dominant winter entertainment for millions of people globally, comparing the development of each of the major forms of football.

Spis treści

1. The Failure of the Football Association  2. Before the Beginning: Folk Football  3. The Gentleman’s Game  4. Sheffield: Football Beyond the Metropolis  5. The End of the Universal Game  6. From the Classes to the Masses  7. Glasgow: Football Capital of the 19^th Century  8. The Coming of Professionalism  9. Women and Football: Kicking against the Pricks  10. Rugby Football: A House Divided  11. Melbourne: A City and Its Football  12. Australian Rules and the Invention of Football Traditions  13. Ireland: Creating Gaelic Football  14. Football and Nationalism in Ireland and Beyond  15. American Football: The Old Game in the New World  16. Canadian Football: Between Scrum and Snapback  17. Rugby League Football: From People’s Game to Proletarian Sport  18. The 1905-06 Football Crisis: North America  19. The 1905-06 Football Crisis: Rugby  20. Soccer: The Modern Game for the Modern World  21. The Global Game

O autorze

Tony Collins is Emeritus Professor of History in the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, UK. His previous books include Rugby's Great Split, Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain, A Social History of English Rugby Union and The Oval World – each of which won the Lord Aberdare prize for sports history book of the year – as well as his global history Sport in Capitalist Society.