162 Pages
by
Routledge
162 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Making of Sporting Cultures presents an analysis of western sport by examining how the collective passions and feelings of people have contributed to the making of sport as a ‘way of life’. The popularity of sport is so pronounced in some cases that we speak of certain sports as ‘national pastimes’. Baseball in the United States, soccer in Britain and cricket in the Caribbean are among the... Read more
1. The Making of Sporting Cultures: Introduction 2. Cultural History and the Study of Sport 3. The Ancient Sporting Legacy: Between Myth and Spectacle 4. Science, Culture and the Sporting Body 5. The Working Class and the Making of Sport 6. The Middle Class, Colonialism and the Making of Sport 7. On Sporting Heroes 8. The Modern City and the Making of Sport 9. Sport and History on the Ground: Documentary and the Feature Film 10. The ‘Global Triumph’ of Sport
Biography
John E. Hughson is Professor of Sport and Cultural Studies, University of Central Lancashire, England.
