Bücher der Reihe Sport in the Global Society

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.

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.

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

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.

Tells the story of 'the Lady Footballers'. This book covers their 1895 and 1896 tours through the eyes of the British press. It also explains gender issues of the time, and the financial problems that doomed this experiment.

A study of the origins of the modern Olympic Games and of their founder, Pierre de Coubertin, whose ideological stamp the Olympics bear.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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