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Sport in the Global Society

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  1. The First Black Footballer

    Arthur Wharton 1865-1930: An Absence of Memory

    By Phil Vasili

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    Arthur Wharton was the world's first black professional footballer, and the first African to play professional cricket in Yorkshire and Lancashire leagues. Those promoting Empire as an expression of white supremacy found him a supreme irritation, and he eventually died in poverty....

    Published September 29th 1997 by Routledge

  2. Footbinding, Feminism and Freedom

    The Liberation of Women's Bodies in Modern China

    By Fan Hong

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    Through the medium of women's bodies, Fan Hong explores the significance of religious beliefs, cultural codes and political dogmas for gender relations, gender concepts and the human body in an Asian setting....

    Published May 31st 1997 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

  4. 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

  5. Tribal Identities

    Nationalism, Europe, Sport

    Edited by J A Mangan

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    Sport is far more than a national and international entertainment. It is a source of political identity, morale, pride and superiority. This text explores the influence of sport on the nations of Europe as a mechanism of national solidarity....

    Published November 30th 1995 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. Sport, Nationalism and Orientalism: The Asian Games
    Edited by Fan Hong
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  2. Sport in Films
    Edited by Emma Poulton, Martin Roderick
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  3. Sport and American Society: Exceptionalism, Insularity, ‘Imperialism’
    Edited by Mark Dyreson, J. A. Mangan
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  4. Sporting Cultures: Hispanic Perspectives on Sport, Text and the Body
    Edited by David Wood, P. Louise Johnson
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  5. The Lady Footballers: Struggling to Play in Victorian Britain
    By James Lee
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  6. Olympism: The Global Vision: From Nationalism to Internationalism
    Edited by Boria Majumdar, Sandra Collins
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  7. Sport Tourism
    Edited by Heather J. Gibson
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  8. Sport, Culture and History: Region, nation and globe
    By Brian Stoddart
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  9. American Sports: An Anthropological Approach
    Edited by Alan Klein
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  10. The Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States: Cathedrals of Sport
    Edited by Mark Dyreson, Robert Trumpbour
    To Be Published August 15th 2013

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