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1. Routledge Handbook of Sport and Legacy

   Meeting the Challenge of Major Sports Events

   Edited by Richard Holt, Dino Ruta

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   What remains of a great sporting spectacle after the last race is run or the final match is played? How can the vast expense of mounting such events be justified ? What if there is nothing left behind or what if the legacy is negative, a costly infrastructure which is unused or a debt-ridden host...

   To Be Published March 14th 2014 by Routledge
2. Language, Politics and Identity in Taiwan

   Naming China

   By Hui-Ching Chang, Richard Holt

   Series: Routledge Research on Taiwan Series

   This unique book traces the intertwined trajectories of five sets of names Taiwan has used to designate China since the Chinese Nationalist Party came to Taiwan in 1949. These have evolved from the derogatory “communist bandits” (gongfe, ??); to the ideologically focused “Chinese Communists” (...

   To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
3. Sport and the Transformation of Modern Europe

   States, media and markets 1950-2010

   Edited by Alan Tomlinson, Christopher Young, Richard Holt

   Series: CRESC

   In the modern era, sport has been an important agent, and symptom, of the political, cultural and commercial pressures for convergence and globalization. In this fascinating, inter-disciplinary study, leading international scholars explore the making of modern sport in Europe, illuminating sport...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
4. A New Guide to Post-Keynesian Economics

   By Richard P. F. Holt, Steven Pressman

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Political Economy

   Eichner's classic A Guide to Post-Keynesian Economics (1978) is still seen as the definitive staging post for those wishing to familiarise themselves with the Post-Keynesian School. This book brings the story up-to-date.Of all the subgroups within heterodox economics, Post-Keynesianism has provided...

   Published August 15th 2001 by Routledge
5. European Heroes

   Myth, Identity, Sport

   Edited by Pierre Lanfranchi, Richard Holt, J A Mangan

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   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. 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...

   Published February 29th 1996 by Routledge