The Rugby World in the Professional Era

ISBN-13: 9780367359492 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 190 str.

John Nauright; Tony Collins

Opis

This is the first book to examine the effects of professionalism and the socio-cultural significance. The Rugby World in the Professional Era is essential reading for anyone with an academic interest in rugby, and students interested in sports history, sports sociology, sport management or professional sport economics.

O autorze

John Nauright is Chair and Professor of the Department of Kinesiology, Health Promotion and Recreation at the University of North Texas, USA. He is the author of Rugby and the South African Nation and Long Run to Freedom: Sport, Cultures and Identities in South Africa. He is also editor of Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity and Making the Rugby World: Race, Gender, Commerce. He was consultant and talking head for the BBC Wales series The Union Game, a global history of rugby union

Tony Collins is Professor of Sports History and former Director of the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. He is the author of The Oval World: A Global History of Rugby; A Social History of English Rugby Union; Rugby’s Great Split: Class, Culture and the Origins of Rugby League Football; Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain; and Sport in Capitalist Society