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

Playing on the Periphery

Tara Brabazon

• Paperback | Sport in the Global Society
• This innovative text explores collective history, memory, and sport culture, tracking the export of sports from England. Analyzing differences between... Lees meer

Making European Masculinities

J. A. Mangan

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society
• As sport has grown, progressively replacing religion, in its power to excite passion, provide emotional escape, offer fraternal (and increasingly soro... Lees meer

Cricketing Cultures in Conflict

• Paperback | Sport in the Global Society
• Introducing themes of racial/political unification, commercialization, the media and globalization, this book explores the role of cricket and sport i... Lees meer

Running Cultures

John Bale

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society
• Running is one of the world's most widely practiced sports and recreations but until now it has intended to elude serious study outside of the natural... Lees meer

Tribal Identities

• Paperback | Sport in the Global Society
• First Published in 1995. Sport is far more than a national and international entertainment. It is a source of political identity, morale, pride and su... Lees meer

Sport in Europe

• Paperback | Sport in the Global Society
• This book examines the cultural, social, political, economic and aesthetic history of Sport in Europe. Lees meer

Sporting Nationalisms

• Paperback | 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

Football and Community in the Global Context

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society
• Football clubs across the world continue to embody many of the collective symbols, identifications and processes of connectivity which have long been ... Lees meer

This Great Symbol

John J Macaloon

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society
• This Great Symbol is the definitive study of the origins of the modern Olympic Games and of their founder, Pierre de Coubertin, whose ideological stam... 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

Beijing 2008: Preparing for Glory

• Hardcover | Sport in the Global Society
• The Beijing Olympics was a political act of assertion. It wass the culmination of political effort going back to 1949. In essence, it was the outcome ... Lees meer

Leisure and Recreation in a Victorian Mining Community

Alan (University of Windsor, Canada) Metcalfe

• Hardcover | Sport in the Global Society
• A detailed account of the central role of recreation in the lives of the working class in the north-east of England, showing how it was an essential r... 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

Doping in Sport

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society
• This important new book provides a thorough analysis of the ethical dimension of performance enhancing drugs in international sport. Reviewing the lit... Lees meer

Crafting Patriotism for Global Dominance

Mark (Pennsylvania State University, USA) 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

Muscular Christianity and the Colonial and Post-Colonial World

• Hardcover | Sport in the Global Society
• This book explores the impact Muscular Christianity’s ethos has had on an English-speaking modern civil society. The papers include fascinating global... Lees meer

A Sport-Loving Society

• Paperback | Sport in the Global Society
• A selection of essays exploring the role of social institutions and political, economic and technological change in shaping the sport of middle class ... Lees meer

Amateurism in Sport

Lincoln Allison

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society
• We often decry "amateurism", yet one can do things "for the love of it" rather than for money. It can also show that an economic system which has more... Lees meer

From Fair Sex to Feminism

• Paperback | Sport in the Global Society
• A collection of essays bringing together the different perspectives of women's studies and the social history of sport, using feminist ideas to explor... Lees meer

Olympism: The Global Vision

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society
• The collection starts from the premise that Olympism and the Olympic Games make sense only when they are placed within the broader national, colonial ... Lees meer

Sport in Australasian Society

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society | nr. 18
• As Sydney prepares to host the 2000 Olympic games, this study assesses the cultural impact of sport on the Australasian countries. Here, as in other p... Lees meer

Gender, Sport, Science

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society
• Roberta J. Park has been throughout her distinguished career a scholar with a mission - to win academic recognition of the significance of the body in... Lees meer

Drugs, Alcohol and Sport

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society
• The use of alcohol and drugs seems contradictory to the popular ideal of sport as a healthy moral and physical pursuit, and yet it has been present in... Lees meer