Sport in the Global Society

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1. The Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States

   Cathedrals of Sport

   Edited by Mark Dyreson, Robert Trumpbour

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   Many Americans know more about the stadiums that loom over their cityscapes or college campuses than they do about any other aspect of the nation’s geography. Stadiums serve as iconic monuments of urban and university identities. Indeed, the power of sport in modern American culture has produced ‘...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Soccer's Missing Men

   Schoolteachers and the Spread of Association Football

   By J.A. Mangan, Colm Hickey

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   Now unknown or forgotten, influential schoolmasters took the game of association football to many parts of England. They had several roles: they brought the game to individual schools, they established regional and national leagues and associations, and they founded professional football...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. The Politics of Sport in South Asia

   Edited by Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty, Shantanu Chakrabarti, Kingshuk Chatterjee

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   Behind the spectacle of entertainment, sport is a subject with political issues at every level. These issues range from the social, with divisions created along gender and class lines, to the use of sport to pursue diplomatic and statecraft goals. In addition, some sports are positioned and...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. Making the Rugby World

   Race, Gender, Commerce

   Edited by Timothy J.L. Chandler, John Nauright

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   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. The development of rugby in the racially divided communities of the setter empire and how this was viewed are explored...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Cultural Bond

   Sport, Empire, Society

   Edited by J.A. Mangan

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   The contributors to this volume examine the aspects of the cultural associations, symbolic interpretations and emotional significance of the idea of empire and, to some extent, with the post-imperial consequences. Collectively and cumulatively, their view is that sport was an important instrument...

   Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
6. Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended

   Political, Cultural, Economic and Educational

   Edited by J A Mangan, Mark Dyreson

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   For more than a century, the Olympics have been the modern world's most significant sporting event. Indeed, they deserve much credit for globalizing sport beyond the boundaries of the Anglo-American universe, where it originated, into broader global realms. By the 1930s, the Olympics had become a...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Making of Sporting Cultures

   By John Hughson

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   The Making of Sporting Cultures presents an analysis of western sport by examining how the collective passions and feelings of people have contributed to the making of sport as a ‘way of life’. The popularity of sport is so pronounced in some cases that we speak of certain sports as ‘national...

   Published January 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Cultural Bond

   Sport, Empire, Society

   Edited by J.A. Mangan

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   The contributors to this volume examine the aspects of the cultural associations, symbolic interpretations and emotional significance of the idea of empire and, to some extent, with the post-imperial consequences. Collectively and cumulatively, their view is that sport was an important instrument...

   Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
9. The Lady Footballers

   Struggling to Play in Victorian Britain

   By James Lee

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   This book tells the story of ‘the Lady Footballers’. It covers their 1895 and 1896 tours through the eyes of the largely unsympathetic British press. It explains gender issues of the time, and the financial problems that doomed this experiment. Despite increasing opportunities in sport for British...

   Published October 21st 2010 by Routledge
10. Beijing 2008: Preparing for Glory

    Chinese Challenge in the 'Chinese Century'

    Edited by J.A. Mangan, Dong Jinxia

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    Beijing 2008: Preparing for Glory - Chinese Challenge in the 'Chinese Century' brings together international scholars with an interest in sport and politics and sinologists with an interest in China - past, present and future - to explore global reaction to the Beijing Olympics - China's...

    Published July 14th 2010 by Routledge