Cricket, Race and the 2007 World Cup

• Paperback | Sport in the Global Society
• This book explores whether commercialism is now the primary factor driving sport, it looks at the changes to cricket over the last 20 years, focusing ... Lees meer

Sporting Nationalisms

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society
• This volume examines the ways in which sport shapes the experiences of various immigrant and minority groups and, in particular, looks at the relation... Lees meer

Crafting Patriotism for Global Dominance

Mark Dyreson

• Hardcover | Sport in the Global Society
• 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 s... Lees meer

The Cultural Bond

• Hardcover | Sport in the Global Society
• The contributors to this volume examine the idea of empire with the view that sport was an important instrument of imperial cultural association and s... Lees meer

America's Game(s)

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society
• This insightful volume considers how to locate America in the sporting world: in the traditions and rituals of a national pastime or in the baseball a... Lees meer

Body and Mind

John McClelland

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society
• This is the first book to address the gap in the literature linking the physical culture of the ancient world with the beginnings of modern sport, thi... Lees meer

European Heroes

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society
• Historians of popular culture have recently been addressing the role of myth, and now it is time that social historians of sport also examined it. The... Lees meer

Cricket and England

Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society
• Looking at the inter-war period, this work explores the relationship between cricket and English social and cultural values. Lees meer

Olympism: The Global Vision

• Hardcover | Sport in the Global Society
• This collection is a first in global publishing, a mine of information for scholars, students and analysts. It demonstrates that Olympic movement in t... Lees meer

Soccer in South Asia

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society
• The place of football in the colonial and post-colonial past is explored and both British and Portuguese influences on the development of the game are... Lees meer

Militarism, Sport, Europe

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society
• A collection of essays exploring the relationship between sport and war, bringing together established authors that include Peter Beck, Hans Bonde, J.... Lees meer

The Magic of Indian Cricket

Mihir Bose

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society
• In the last twenty years, Indian cricket has been transformed. With the arrival of global television networks, mass-media coverage and multinational s... Lees meer

Australian Beach Cultures

Douglas Booth

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society
• Australians are surrounded by beaches. But this enclosure is more than a geographical fact for the inhabitants of an island continent; the beach is an... Lees meer

Soccer, Women, Sexual Liberation

Fan Hong, J a Mangan

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society
• This is the first in-depth global study of women's football across the world. This collection considers women's football, in fifteen countries worldwi... Lees meer

France and the 1998 World Cup

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society
• The contributions here cover the major socio-economic, political, cultural and sporting dimensions of the 1998 World Cup. It is set within the sportin... Lees meer

The 1940 Tokyo Games: The Missing Olympics

Sandra Collins

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society
• By representing their experience of modernity as different from the West in their respective Olympic Games, Asian nations reveal much about the ambiti... Lees meer

American Sports

• Hardcover | Sport in the Global Society
• This collection illustrates the expansiveness of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of sport. The essays consider sports in their social, econ... Lees meer

Football Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society
• These essays provide a critical investigation of football cultures, examining local and national impacts of the game's new millennial order over five ... Lees meer

Sport in Australasian Society

• Hardcover | Sport in the Global Society
• As Sydney prepares to host next year's Olympic Games, this timely volume examines the cultural impact of sport on the Australasian countries. Lees meer

British Football & Social Exclusion

Stephen Wagg

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society
• This book takes stock of British football at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is written by a range of concerned academics and writers, a... Lees meer

America's Game(s)

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society
• This insightful volume considers how to locate America in the sporting world: in the traditions and rituals of a national pastime or in the baseball a... Lees meer

Native Americans and Sport in North America

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society
• Taking examples from the United States and Canada, this comprehensive text offers compassionate and critical accounts of the Native American sporting ... Lees meer

Sport in South Asian Society

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society
• A detailed study of sports' arrival, spread and advance in colonial and post-colonial South Asia. A selection of articles addresses critical issues of... Lees meer

Crafting Patriotism for Global Dominance

Mark Dyreson

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society
• In 2008 China plans to use the Olympic Games to remake its national identity in the global marketplace. In so doing China treads the path blazed by th... Lees meer