Sports and Leisure Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. The Organisation and Governance of Top Football Across Europe

   An Institutional Perspective

   Edited by Hallgeir Gammelsæter, Benoit Senaux

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   This book aims to provide an extensive overview of how football is organized and managed on a European level and in individual European countries, and to account for the evolution of the national, international and transnational management of football over the last decades....

   Published June 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Beijing Olympics: Promoting China

   Soft and Hard Power in Global Politics

   Edited by Kevin Caffrey

   The Beijing 2008 Olympic ceremonies were spectacular performances and technological accomplishments by the People’s Republic of China. However, the audience in Beijing was only the most overt element of a global audience receiving the message of the Games. For this global audience, the Beijing...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. The Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States

   Cathedrals of Sport

   Edited by Mark Dyreson, Robert Trumpbour

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   Many Americans know more about the stadiums that loom over their cityscapes or college campuses than they do about any other aspect of the nation’s geography. Stadiums serve as iconic monuments of urban and university identities. Indeed, the power of sport in modern American culture has produced ‘...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. Soccer's Missing Men

   Schoolteachers and the Spread of Association Football

   By J.A. Mangan, Colm Hickey

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   Now unknown or forgotten, influential schoolmasters took the game of association football to many parts of England. They had several roles: they brought the game to individual schools, they established regional and national leagues and associations, and they founded professional football...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. The Politics of Sport in South Asia

   Edited by Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty, Shantanu Chakrabarti, Kingshuk Chatterjee

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   Behind the spectacle of entertainment, sport is a subject with political issues at every level. These issues range from the social, with divisions created along gender and class lines, to the use of sport to pursue diplomatic and statecraft goals. In addition, some sports are positioned and...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. Economics of Betting Markets

   Edited by David Peel

   During the last few decades, commercial gambling has increased substantially throughout the Western world. More people than ever before have access to sources of legalised gambling, leading to bumper revenues for the institutions involved. Naturally enough, this has led to an increased interest in...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. Governance, Citizenship and the New European Football Championships

   The European Spectacle

   Edited by Wolfram Manzenreiter, Georg Spitaler

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   Over the past decade, European football has seen tremendous changes impacting upon its international framework as well as local traditions and national institutions. Processes of Europeanization in the fields of economy and politics provided the background for transformations of the production and...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
8. Sport as History

   Essays in Honour of Wray Vamplew

   Edited by Tony Collins

   Published to mark the career of one of sports history’s pioneers, this book traces the evolution of sport across three continents. It brings together some of sports history’s leading scholars to investigate not only the history of sport but also how that history is written. This Festschrift...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
9. Lifelong Engagement in Sport and Physical Activity

   Participation and Performance across the Lifespan

   Edited by Nicholas Holt, Margaret Talbot

   Series: ICSSPE Perspectives

   Sport and physical activity should now be understood as lifelong activity, beginning in childhood, and accessible to participants of all levels of ability. This book offers an overview of some of the core concerns underlying lifelong engagement in sport and physical activity, encompassing...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
10. 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