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  • - An Emerging Relationship
     
    226,00 €

    The contributors to this collection argue that sport remains an understudied aspect of international relations, and that the growth of its importance should be seen in the complex interdependencies and global systems of governance.

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    53,00 €

    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.

  • - Past and present
     
    240,00 €

    Linking sport to the emergence and growth of modern Asian society this collection of essays offers a lucid, original and highly readable history of politics, culture and sport in the world's most populous region.

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    63,00 €

    Analyzing how sports both contribute to, and undermine the human rights of participants, spectators and workers, this book examines controversial issues such as: sexual harassment, racism, freedom of movement, and sport as popular protest.

  • von Jon Gemmell
    39,00 - 76,00 €

    Jon Gemmell analyses the relationship between sport and politics through a historical analysis of South African cricket.

  • - An Analysis and Defence
    von Lincoln Allison
    81,00 €

    This book takes amateurism seriously as ethical and political theory and examines its rationale, its history, its ethics and economics and the future of amateur values.

  • - Splashing in the Serpentine
    von Christopher Love
    75,00 €

    Covering a time of great social and technological change, this book traces the development of the four classic aquatic disciplines of competitive swimming, diving, synchronized swimming and water polo, with its main focus on racing.

  • - Schoolteachers and the Spread of Association Football
    von J. A. Mangan & Colm Hickey
    76,00 €

    Unknown or forgotten, influential schoolmasters took the game of association football to many parts of England. They brought the game to individual schools and they established regional and national leagues and associations. This story intends to allow a fundamental reappraisal of the status and position of these teachers in 20th century society.

  • - Holding up More than Half the Sky
    von Dong Jinxia
    323,00 €

    Drawing on Chinese sources hitherto unavailable in the West, official documents and interviews with top athletes, the author explores the rise of Chinese super sportswomen.

  • - Less Virtuous Victorians at Play
     
    91,00 €

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

  • - Local Conflicts, Global Visions
     
    239,00 €

    These essays provide a critical investigation of football cultures, examining local and national impacts of the game's new millennial order over five continents.

  • - The Role of Global Institutions in Sport
     
    226,00 €

    1. Sport and Globalisation: The Issues 2. Sport, Prestige and International Relations 3. Not for the Good of the Game: Crises and Credibility in the Governance of World Football 4. Olympic Survivals: The Olympic Games as a Global Phenomenon 5. Alternative Models for the Regulation of Global Sport.

  • - Local Conflicts, Global Visions
     
    86,00 €

    These essays provide a critical investigation of football cultures, examining local and national impacts of the game's new millennial order over five continents.

  • - Politics, Colonialism and Resistance
    von Paul Darby
    82,00 - 320,00 €

    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 Life and Times of the 1930s Professional Footballer
    von Graham Kelly
    94,00 - 226,00 €

    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,'

  • von UK) Wagg & Stephen (Leeds Beckett University
    101,00 €

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

  • - Race, Gender, Commerce
     
    85,00 €

    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 History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art
    von Matthias Rohrig Assuncao
    239,00 €

    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

  • - Identity, Ethnicity, Immigration and Assimilation
     
    85,00 €

    This volume examines the ways in which sport shapes the experiences of various immigrant and minority groups and in particular, looks at the relationship between sport, ethnic identity and ethnic relations.

  • - Global and Local Dimensions
     
    81,00 €

    This book focuses on the sport-media phenomenon and analyses such issues as new media technology, gender, ethnicity, collective identity and globalization, as well as aspects of the political economy of the media.

  • - Sport and Politics in South Africa
    von New Zealand) Booth & Douglas (University of Waikato
    88,00 €

    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.

  • - Battles Off the Pitch
    von UK) Majumdar & Boria (University of Central Lancashire
    81,00 €

    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.

  • - The Untold Story
    von Adrian Harvey
    83,00 - 227,00 €

    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.

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    66,00 €

    As the commercialization of sport grows, the need for regulation increases. This work looks at how the law is used in sports, in such areas as money, drugs, and the control of hooliganism.

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    93,00 €

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

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    228,00 €

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

  • - Kicking off a New Era
    von Fan Hong & J. A. Mangan
    83,00 €

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

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    64,00 €

    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.

  • - Myth, Identity, Sport
     
    104,00 €

    The contributors to this collection of essays explore the symbolic meanings that have been attached to sport in Europe by considering some of the mythic heroes who have dominated the sporting landscapes of their own countries.

  • - Past and Present
     
    87,00 €

    As Sydney prepares to host next year's Olympic Games, this timely volume examines the cultural impact of sport on the Australasian countries.

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