Individual Sports Books

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1. Reviewing UK Football Cultures: Continuing with Gender Analyses

   Edited by Jayne Caudwell

   This book examines the complex ways in which girls and women experience football cultures in Britain. It extends current debate surrounding women and football (namely, how gender has functioned to shape women’s experiences of playing the game), by focusing on organisational, administrative and...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-56087-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Global Perspectives on Football in Africa: Visualising the Game

   Edited by Susann Baller, Giorgio Miescher, Raffaele Poli

   Football, in many ways, is a visual endeavour. From the visual experience within the stadium itself to worldwide media representations, from advertisements to football art and artefacts: football is much about seeing and being seen, about watching, making visual and being visualised. The FIFA World...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-57229-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. The Visual in Sport

   Edited by Mike Huggins, Mike O'Mahony

   This comprehensive, novel and exciting interdisciplinary collection brings together leading international authorities from the history of sport, social history, art history, film history, design history, visual culture studies and related fields to explore the ways in which sport and the visual...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-58507-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Football’s Relationship with Art: Lines of Beauty?

   By John Hughson

   The ‘beautiful game’, a term commonly associated with Pele but traceable to his Brazilian national team predecessor Zidi, is now widely accepted as a descriptor of the world’s most popular sport. But to suggest that football is beautiful is to raise a number of questions pertinent to a range of...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-59196-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Australian Sport: Antipodean Waves of Change

   Edited by Kristine Toohey, Tracy Taylor

   Australia is only a small player in the world’s political and economic landscapes, yet, for many decades it has been considered to be a global powerhouse in terms of its sporting successes. In conjunction with this notion, the nation has long been portrayed as having a preoccupation with sport....

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-44745-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Science and Golf (Routledge Revivals): Proceedings of the First World Scientific Congress of Golf

   Edited by A. J. Cochran

   First published in 1990, this reissue contains the papers presented at the First World Scientific Congress of Golf, held at the University of St Andrews. This Congress was the first gathering of its kind, bringing together leading scientists researching into golf, including specialists in&...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-59994-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. The Lady Footballers: Struggling to Play in Victorian Britain

   By James Lee

   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...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-60313-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Coaching Cultures

   Edited by Neil Carter

   Coaches are amongst the most visible figures in sport today but little is known about the history of their profession. This book examines the history of coaching from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth century. It uses a number of sports as case studies that includes: cricket,...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-59408-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Who Owns Football?: Models of Football Governance and Management in International Sport

   Edited by David Hassan, Sean Hamil

   The commercialization of sport since the 1990s has had a number of consequences. The market forces that have defined commercialization, notably pay-per-view television, whilst initially welcomed as important new sources of revenue, have also had the unanticipated consequences of de-stabilizing many...

   October 2010 | 978-0-415-44570-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. The Social Impact of Sport: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

    Edited by Ramón Spaaij

    This book critically examines the ways in which sports contribute to, or inhibit, social well-being, the directions these changes take and the conditions necessary for sport to have beneficial outcomes. The themes addressed in the book demonstrate the diversity and versatility of the social impacts...

    September 2010 | 978-0-415-58394-7 | Hardback (Routledge)