The Emergence of Football fuses sports history into mainstream economic, social and cultural history, setting the development of the people’s game against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution.

This book explores the historical development of coaching traditions across Europe, placing national approaches to coaching within their cultural and political context.

This book is the first, full-length scholarly examination of British women’s involvement in equestrianism from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, as well as the corresponding transformations of gender, class, sport, and national identity in Britain and its Empire.