History of sport

This is the first text to examine women and sport in Italy during the period 1861-1945.

First published in 1979, this classic study of the development of rugby from folk game to its modern Union and League forms has become a seminal text in sport history.

First published in 1979, this classic study of the development of rugby from folk game to its modern Union and League forms has become a seminal text in sport history.

This book clarifies and verifies the role sport has as an alternative marker in understanding and mapping memory in Japan, by applying the concept of lieux de memoire (realms of memory) to sport in Japan.

This book clarifies and verifies the role sport has as an alternative marker in understanding and mapping memory in Japan, by applying the concept of lieux de memoire (realms of memory) to sport in Japan.

Telling an important story about the development of modern Turkey, this fascinating book examines the place of football in Turkish society and the relationship between Turkish sport, nationalism, and globalization.

The pressures and demands of professionalism and commercialization have transformed Britain's sports.

The pressures and demands of professionalism and commercialization have transformed Britain's sports.

This book explores the role of FIFA in brokering the development of football in Africa and its relationship with that continent's football associations and regional governing body.

This book explores the role of FIFA in brokering the development of football in Africa and its relationship with that continent's football associations and regional governing body.

The supremacy of the global fascist superman never became a reality but was certainly an intention.

The supremacy of the global fascist superman never became a reality but was certainly an intention.

There has been an explosion in the quantity of sports history literature published in recent years, making it increasingly difficult to keep abreast of developments.

There has been an explosion in the quantity of sports history literature published in recent years, making it increasingly difficult to keep abreast of developments.

Volume three of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain.

Volume three of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain.

Volume two of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain.

Volume two of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain.

Volume one of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain.

Volume one of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain.

A record of the role of selected middle-class individuals across Europe who made notable contributions to the early evolution of modern sport and who saw success in modern sport as an expression of human qualities to be admired, applauded and encouraged.

A record of the role of selected middle-class individuals across Europe who made notable contributions to the early evolution of modern sport and who saw success in modern sport as an expression of human qualities to be admired, applauded and encouraged.

The sports of Europe and the United States were imitated and assimilated and became symbols of national and cosmopolitan identity.

The sports of Europe and the United States were imitated and assimilated and became symbols of national and cosmopolitan identity.

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 considered.

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 considered.

In most accounts of Olympic history across the world, India's Olympic journey is a mere footnote.

In most accounts of Olympic history across the world, India's Olympic journey is a mere footnote.

This examination of changes taking place in the world of football focuses on its growing commercialization.

This examination of changes taking place in the world of football focuses on its growing commercialization.

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.

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.

2001 North American Society for Sports History Book of the YearThis volume studies the formative period of racing between 1790 and 1914.

2001 North American Society for Sports History Book of the YearThis volume studies the formative period of racing between 1790 and 1914.

This book examines the construction of national, regional, and group identities in the football journalism of five European countries: England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

This book examines the construction of national, regional, and group identities in the football journalism of five European countries: England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

This book examines the cultural, social, political, economic and aesthetic history of Sport in Europe.

This book examines the cultural, social, political, economic and aesthetic history of Sport in Europe.

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.

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.

1997 British Society of Sports History - Lord Aberdare Literary Prize for Sports HistoryThe record-breaking achievements of Kenyan athletes have caught the imagination of the world of sport.

1997 British Society of Sports History - Lord Aberdare Literary Prize for Sports HistoryThe record-breaking achievements of Kenyan athletes have caught the imagination of the world of sport.

The contributions here cover the major socio-economic, political, cultural and sporting dimensions of the 1998 World Cup.

The contributions here cover the major socio-economic, political, cultural and sporting dimensions of the 1998 World Cup.

This book explores the expansion of rugby from its imperial and amateur upper-class white male core into other contexts throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This volume is a significant contribution to the study of contemporary European culture.

This volume is a significant contribution to the study of contemporary European culture.

This is more than a description of the imperial spread of public school games: it considers hegemony and patronage, ideals and idealism, educational values and aspirations, cultural assimilation and adaptation and the dissemination of the moralistic ideology of athleticism.

This is more than a description of the imperial spread of public school games: it considers hegemony and patronage, ideals and idealism, educational values and aspirations, cultural assimilation and adaptation and the dissemination of the moralistic ideology of athleticism.

This book explores the expansion of rugby from its imperial and amateur upper-class white male core into other contexts throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.