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1. 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...

   To Be Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. 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 November 29th 1999 by Routledge
3. Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity

   Edited by Timothy J.L. Chandler, John Nauright

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   This text looks at how an understanding of rugby can provide insight into what it has meant to "be a man" in societies influenced by the ideals of Victorian upper and middle classes. It shows that rugby has been a means of promoting male exclusivity, but also been a means of cultural incorporation....

   Published June 28th 1996 by Routledge