As sport has grown, progressively replacing religion, in its power to excite passion, provide emotional escape, offer fraternal (and increasingly sororital) bonding, it has come to loom larger and larger in the lives of Europeans and others. It has become an inescapable reality linking public environment with intimate experience and thus offers the historian an opportunity to inspect and attempt to grasp all the dimensions of the recent past and their relative share in individual and collective experience. This collection considers the evolution of modern sport in Europe and examines its role...
As sport has grown, progressively replacing religion, in its power to excite passion, provide emotional escape, offer fraternal (and increasingly soro...
Introducing themes of racial/political unification, commercialization, the media and globalization, this book explores the role of cricket and sport in each of the competing nations, with particular reference to the Cricket World Cup.
Introducing themes of racial/political unification, commercialization, the media and globalization, this book explores the role of cricket and sport i...
This collection is a first in global publishing, a mine of information for scholars, students and analysts. It demonstrates that Olympic movement in the modern context has been, and continues to be, socially relevant and politically important.
This collection is a first in global publishing, a mine of information for scholars, students and analysts. It demonstrates that Olympic movement i...
The United States uses the Olympic Games to construct and contest its national image. For more than a century the Olympics have served the U.S. as a site for erecting memorials to American patriotism and developing mythologies of American exceptionalism.
The United States uses the Olympic Games to construct and contest its national image. For more than a century the Olympics have served the U.S. as ...
This collection illustrates the expansiveness of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of sport. The essays consider sports in their social, economic, cultural and political aspects.
This collection illustrates the expansiveness of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of sport. The essays consider sports in their social, e...
This book is a fascinating journey through a series of scholarly articles. The journey begins by tracing one of the most significant stories in the popularization of Association Football. In the next leg of the journey it charts the diverse and changing face of the modern British game. It then moves on to the global spread of the game from England and its domestication and appropriation in its new homes across the planet. It also investigates the exchanges which are increasingly taking place between these new homes of football. In the concluding pieces football's global experience is...
This book is a fascinating journey through a series of scholarly articles. The journey begins by tracing one of the most significant stories in the...
Sport and recreation were essential to bring meaning and pleasure to mining families, and were fundamental to the complex social relationships within and between communities. This book 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.
Sport and recreation were essential to bring meaning and pleasure to mining families, and were fundamental to the complex social relationships within ...
Investigates why elite English sports - such as rugby and cricket - became national sports in New Zealand and Australia, and asks why working class sports - such as football - have travelled less well to these areas. Focusing on these sports, the author tracks narratives and myths, tracing the passage of colonial truths, behaviours and practices.
Investigates why elite English sports - such as rugby and cricket - became national sports in New Zealand and Australia, and asks why working class sp...
Describes the varieties of sport, games and physical education practiced in Western Europe between 450-1650 AD. This book presents changing nature of geopolitical structures, educational systems, religious institutions and the practice of warfare and medicine. It is suitable for various historians of sport and culture.
Describes the varieties of sport, games and physical education practiced in Western Europe between 450-1650 AD. This book presents changing nature of ...
This book provides a ‘state of the art’ review of the academic study of cricket. It defines the current state of the field and will serve as the springboard for future research and scholarship of the game.
This book provides a ‘state of the art’ review of the academic study of cricket. It defines the current state of the field and will serve as th...
