Sport in the Global Society

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41. Emigrant Players

    Sport and the Irish Diaspora

    Edited by Paul Darby, David Hassan

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    Ireland and its inhabitants have often been described as being ‘sports mad’. As a relatively small geographical entity, Ireland, north and south, has produced a disproportionately high number of world class sports men and women who have excelled at the highest levels of their chosen sport. The...

    Published June 24th 2008 by Routledge
42. American Sports

    An Anthropological Approach

    Edited by Alan Klein

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    This collection illustrates the expansiveness of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of sport. While rooted in anthropology, these essays consider American sports in their social, economic, cultural and political aspects, charting their evolution. The book draws from history, sociology, and...

    Published June 3rd 2008 by Routledge
43. Sporting Cultures

    Hispanic Perspectives on Sport, Text and the Body

    Edited by David Wood, P. Louise Johnson

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    The essays that comprise this book mark new territory in the study of sport in the Hispanic world, a key site of cultural experience for the populations of Latin America, the United States and the Iberian Peninsula. The scope of the volume is the exploration of the representation and interaction of...

    Published May 23rd 2008 by Routledge
44. The Lady Footballers

    Struggling to Play in Victorian Britain

    By James Lee

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    This book tells the story of ‘the Lady Footballers’. It covers their 1895 and 1896 tours through the eyes of the largely unsympathetic British press. It explains gender issues of the time, and the financial problems that doomed this experiment. Despite increasing opportunities in sport for British...

    Published May 14th 2008 by Routledge
45. Cricket in Colonial India 1780 – 1947

    By Boria Majumdar

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    This is an exacting social history of Indian cricket between 1780 and 1947. It considers cricket as a derivative sport, creatively adapted to suit modern Indian socio-cultural needs, fulfil political imperatives and satisfy economic aspirations. Majumdar argues that cricket was a means to...

    Published May 1st 2008 by Routledge
46. The 1904 St. Louis Olympic Games and Anthropology Days

    Sport Before the Laughter Left

    Edited by Susan Brownell

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    The 1904 Olympic Games and Anthropology Days were a pivotal point in the history of American anthropology and of the Olympic Games. This is because they were anchored within larger transformations in global culture – namely, the decline of empire, the rise of the nation-state, and the ensuing...

    Published April 14th 2008 by Routledge
47. Globalised Football

    Nations and Migration, the City and the Dream

    Edited by Nina Clara Tiesler, Joao Nuno Coelho

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    When studying the social phenomena in and around football, five major aspects of globalisation processes become evident: international migration, the global flow of capital, the syncretistic nature of tradition and modernity in contemporary culture, new experiences of time and space and the...

    Published April 13th 2008 by Routledge
48. Football Fans Around the World

    From Supporters to Fanatics

    Edited by Sean Brown

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    This volume investigates the way in which football supporters around the world express themselves as followers of teams, whether they be professional, amateur or national. The diverse geographical and cultural array of contributions to this volume highlights not only the variety of how fans express...

    Published March 26th 2008 by Routledge
49. The 1940 Tokyo Games: The Missing Olympics

    Japan, the Asian Olympics and the Olympic Movement

    By Sandra Collins

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    By representing their experience of modernity as different from the West in their respective Olympic Games, Asian nations reveal much about the ambitions and anxieties of being an Asian host in the continuing western Olympic hegemony. This original work explores the encounter between ‘the East and...

    Published March 26th 2008 by Routledge
50. Sport, Culture and History

    Region, nation and globe

    By Brian Stoddart

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    In addition to being an internationally recognised pioneer of sports history, Brian Stoddart has also been a leading thinker and influence in the field. That influence has crossed several areas of history, sociology, business, politics and media aspects of sports studies, and has drawn deeply upon...

    Published March 25th 2008 by Routledge