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  1. The Cultural Bond

    Sport, Empire, Society

    Edited by J.A. Mangan

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    The contributors to this volume examine the aspects of the cultural associations, symbolic interpretations and emotional significance of the idea of empire and, to some extent, with the post-imperial consequences. Collectively and cumulatively, their view is that sport was an important instrument...

    Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended

    Political, Cultural, Economic and Educational

    Edited by J A Mangan, Mark Dyreson

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    For more than a century, the Olympics have been the modern world's most significant sporting event. Indeed, they deserve much credit for globalizing sport beyond the boundaries of the Anglo-American universe, where it originated, into broader global realms. By the 1930s, the Olympics had become a...

    Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge

  3. The Making of Sporting Cultures

    By John Hughson

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    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...

    Published January 14th 2012 by Routledge

  4. The Cultural Bond

    Sport, Empire, Society

    Edited by J.A. Mangan

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    The contributors to this volume examine the aspects of the cultural associations, symbolic interpretations and emotional significance of the idea of empire and, to some extent, with the post-imperial consequences. Collectively and cumulatively, their view is that sport was an important instrument...

    Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge

  5. 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 October 21st 2010 by Routledge

  6. Beijing 2008: Preparing for Glory

    Chinese Challenge in the 'Chinese Century'

    Edited by J.A. Mangan, Dong Jinxia

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    Beijing 2008: Preparing for Glory - Chinese Challenge in the 'Chinese Century' brings together international scholars with an interest in sport and politics and sinologists with an interest in China - past, present and future - to explore global reaction to the Beijing Olympics - China's...

    Published July 14th 2010 by Routledge

  7. 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 December 20th 2009 by Routledge

  8. 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 December 13th 2009 by Routledge

  9. Sport in Films

    Edited by Emma Poulton, Martin Roderick

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    Sport offers everything a good story should have: heroes and villains, triumph and disaster, achievement and despair, tension and drama. Consequently, sport makes for a compelling film narrative and films, in turn, are a vivid medium for sport. Yet despite its regularity as a central theme in...

    Published November 24th 2009 by Routledge

  10. 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 November 11th 2009 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. The Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States: Cathedrals of Sport
    Edited by Mark Dyreson, Robert Trumpbour
    To Be Published May 31st 2013
  2. Soccer's Missing Men: Schoolteachers and the Spread of Association Football
    By J.A. Mangan, Colm Hickey
    To Be Published May 31st 2013
  3. The Politics of Sport in South Asia
    Edited by Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty, Shantanu Chakrabarti, Kingshuk Chatterjee
    To Be Published May 31st 2013
  4. Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended: Political, Cultural, Economic and Educational
    Edited by J A Mangan, Mark Dyreson
    To Be Published May 31st 2013
  5. European Heroes: Myth, Identity, Sport
    Edited by Pierre Lanfranchi, Richard Holt, J A Mangan
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  6. Flat Racing and British Society, 1790-1914: A Social and Economic History
    By Mike Huggins
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  7. Sport in Europe: Politics, Class, Gender
    Edited by J A Mangan
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  8. Football, Europe and the Press
    By Liz Crolley, David Hand
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  9. Making European Masculinities: Sport, Europe, Gender
    By J. A. Mangan
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  10. Tribal Identities: Nationalism, Europe, Sport
    Edited by J A Mangan
    To Be Published September 29th 2013

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