Böcker i Sport in the Global Society-serien

Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art now spreading over the rest of the world and this book, the only complete history of the art in the English language, traces the history of the martial art and examines its influence on ethnic and national

This book describes the imperial spread of public school games through a consideration of hegemony and patronage, ideals and idealism, educational values and aspirations, cultural assimilation and adaptation.

This book examines 1930s football in England in its social, economic and political context by focusing on 10 of the top players of the era. It sheds light on the decade that saw players taking on a public persona as 'terrace heroes,'

This book takes stock of British football at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Those promoting Empire as an expression of white supremacy found Arthur Wharton, the world's first black professional footballer, a supreme irritation, and he eventually died in poverty.

This volume studies the formative period of racing between 1790 and 1914.

Cricket arouses more passions in India than in any other cricket playing country in the world. This work studies the personalities and controversies that have shaped Indian cricket over the years, and describes the intensity surrounding India's national game.

Presenting a revisionist history of football, this book aims to challenge commonly held beliefs about the birth of the modern game, demonstrating that outside of English public school codification, a long history of an established and organised sport existed.

In this book Douglas Booth takes a fresh look at the role of sport in the fostering of a new national identity in South Africa.

This collection considers women's football in a global context and analyses its progress, and the challenges and problems it has faced.

This revised edition of a classic sport studies text exploring the development of rugby from a folk game into its modern forms has been updated with a substantial new foreword and epilogue, to provide analysis of the developments in international

Behind the spectacle of entertainment, sport is a subject with political issues at every level. This book seeks to explore some aspects of the notion of power in sport in South Asia and among South Asians abroad.This book was based on two special issues of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

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.

Challenging the respectable image of Victorian society, this collection explores the sinful side of middle-class Victorian leisure, highlighting the problematic relationship between public respectability and private pleasure.

This is a study of masculinity as a metaphor and especially of the muscular male body as a moral symbol. It explores the Nazi's preoccupation with the male body as an icon of political power, and the ideology and theories which propelled it.

This book represents an attempt to fill the significant gap in literature by examining five different aspects of the commercialisation of sport.

This book charts the diverse and changing face of football, from its origins in England to its adoption by other countries throughout the world. The globalized experiences that football has undergone is compared to those of baseball.

This book analyzes how the Irish aptitude and ebullience for sport has manifested itself abroad in countries with large Irish communities. Tracing how some clung to the traditions of the 'Old Country'; it also considers how involvement in sports enabled emigres to adapt to new locales.

This book offers original interpretations of the `built environments¿ that shape sport in U.S. society. The volume details the complex political, economic, social, and cultural issues that shaped the construction of the nation¿s most iconic modern buildings ¿ the new American secular cathedrals.

This work traces the history, achievements and prospects of football in India and among global south Asian communities.

A look at sport in America today and down through its history. The book illustrates how sport is used in the creation, maintenance and now global dissemination of a nation's cherished values.

This collection of essays charts the development of rugby football from its origins in the English public schools and ancient universities to its acceptance in the farthest reaches of the empire.

The collection examines cases of discrimination directed at individuals or groups, resulting in their exclusion from full participation in sport and their consequent struggle for inclusion. It shows how ethnic and national identity are sources of

This collection explores the relationship between sport and war.

Examines the tension between traditional models of Japanese sport, developed over centuries of relative isolation, and the forces of modernization and Japanese determination to become a global power.

This collection uses spatial concepts and examples to examine the nature and development of sporting practices. It shows how the study of built environments such as gymnasiums and football stadiums can provide unique information about the body's

This work deals with the infancy, adolescence and maturity of sport in Latin American society. It explores ways in which sport illuminates cultural migration and emigration and indigenous assimilation and adaptation.

Stories of remarkable women who devoted their lives to the cause of women's physical liberation are told in this volume.