Introduction 1. Capitalism and the Birth of Modern Sport 2. Class Conflict and the Decline of Traditional Games 3. Sport, Nationalism and the French Revolution 4. The Middle-Class Invention of Amateurism 5. Women and the Masculine Kingdom of Sport 6. The Victorian Sporting Industrial Revolution 7. Sport and the Age of Empire 8. Unfair Play: the Racial Politics of Sport 9. Soccer’s Rise to Globalism 10. The Second Revolution: Sport between the World Wars 11. Revolutionary Sport 12. Sex, Drugs and Sport in the Cold War 13. Taking Sides in the 1960s 14. The Revolution is being Televised 15. Winners and Losers in the New World Order Conclusion: What Future for Sport?
Biography
Tony Collins is Professor of History and Director of the International Centre for Sports History & Culture at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. He is the author of several books, including Rugby’s Great Split and A Social History of English Rugby Union, and was a lead consultant for the 2012 BBC Radio 4 series Sport and the British.
"The book is likely to be held in as much regard as Allen Guttmann’s earlier overarching exposition in From Ritual to Record, still widely cited after nearly three decades." – Wray Vamplew, University of Central Lancashire, Lancashire, UK. Taken from a review published in The International Journal of the History of Sport
"Sport in Capitalist Society by Tony Collins is a highly readable historical account from the mid -nineteenth century to the present day of how capitalism has served to shape sport. Victorian morality, Empire, the Cold War, globalisation and much more are each detailed in terms of how they served to change sport.Add all the insights together and a comprehensive picture of today's marketisation of sport is provided." – Mark Perryman, philosophyfootball.com
