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Product Description: Two leading sports authorities explore the culture of soccer around the world, considering the sport as a means to better understand a society's past, present, and future. ⢠Includes both men's and women's soccer ⢠Features lists of winners of World Cups, regional confederations cups, and Olympic Games ⢠Provides sidebars of interesting facts and photos to supplement the text ⢠Offers a multi-disciplinary perspective from across geography, social studies, world cultures, and anthropology...read more
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9781610693028 | Abc-Clio Inc, April 21, 2014, cover price $89.00 | About this edition: Two leading sports authorities explore the culture of soccer around the world, considering the sport as a means to better understand a society's past, present, and future.
Hardcover:
9781598843002 | Abc-Clio Inc, April 6, 2012, cover price $457.00
Product Description: The field of sports history is no longer a fledgling area of study. There is a great vitality in the field and it has matured dramatically over the past decade. Reflecting changes to traditional approaches, sport historians need now to engage with contemporary debates about history, to be encouraged to position themselves and their methodologies in relation to current epistemological issues, and to promote the importance of reflecting on the literary or poetic dimensions of producing history...read more
Paperback:
9780415501941 | Routledge, December 9, 2011, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: The field of sports history is no longer a fledgling area of study.
Miscellaneous:
9780203885413 | Routledge, December 18, 2009, cover price $170.00
Product Description: The Long Run to Freedom: Sport, Cultures and Identities in South Africa analyzes the meaning attached to sport in South African societies, past and present. It explores the history and changing meanings attached to particular sports in the old and new South Africas, and the ways in which sport is being used in the present...read more
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9780718500498 | Cassell, May 1, 1998, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: The meanings attached to sports in South African societies, past and present, are explored in this book, which focuses particularly on the part played by the prominent team sports of rugby, soccer and cricket in the creation of social divisions and unities over the course of South African history.
Paperback:
9781935412045, titled "Long Run to Freedom: Sport, Cultures and Identities in South Africa" | Fitness Information Technology, May 1, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Long Run to Freedom: Sport, Cultures and Identities in South Africa analyzes the meaning attached to sport in South African societies, past and present.
9780718500726 | Leicester Univ Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: The meanings attached to sports in South African societies, past and present, are explored in this book, which focuses particularly on the part played by the prominent team sports of rugby, soccer and cricket in the creation of social divisions and unities over the course of South African history.
Product Description: Sport studies has become one of the largest and fastest growing international industries. This collection of essays from a range of international contributors analyzes all aspects of the political economy of this industry, including media sports production, urban growth politics and capital accumulation and the economic effects of Olympism...read more
Hardcover:
9780333773864 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 29, 2005, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Sport studies has become one of the largest and fastest growing international industries.
Product Description: Problems within modern sports are proliferating. Fraud, drug use and other health-damaging consequences of high performance sports have revealed that the idea of sport as a healthy and educational enterprise is nothing but an illusion...read more
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9788778387646 | Univ Pr of Southern Denmark, January 1, 2003, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Problems within modern sports are proliferating.
Product Description: As Sydney prepares to host the 2000 Olympic games, this study assesses the cultural impact of sport on the Australasian countries. Here, as in other parts of the world, sport is taken as an assertion of both individual and group identity, a demonstration of modernity and a source of personal, local and regional esteem...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780714650609 | Routledge, August 1, 2000, cover price $215.00 | About this edition: As Sydney prepares to host the 2000 Olympic games, this study assesses the cultural impact of sport on the Australasian countries.
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9780714681122 | Routledge, September 1, 2000, cover price $62.95 | About this edition: As Sydney prepares to host the 2000 Olympic games, this study assesses the cultural impact of sport on the Australasian countries.
Product Description: This book explores the expansion of rugby from its imperial and amateur upper-class white male core into other contexts throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The development of rugby in the racially divided communities of the setter empire and how this was viewed are explored initially...read more
Hardcover:
9780714648538 | Frank Cass & Co, August 1, 1999, cover price $190.00 | About this edition: This book explores the expansion of rugby from its imperial and amateur upper-class white male core into other contexts throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Paperback:
9780714644110 | Routledge, January 1, 2000, cover price $62.95 | About this edition: This book explores the expansion of rugby from its imperial and amateur upper-class white male core into other contexts throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Hardcover:
9780719049316 | Manchester Univ Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $74.95
Paperback:
9780719049323 | Manchester Univ Pr, October 15, 1998, cover price $31.95
Product Description: This text looks at how an understanding of rugby can provide insight into what it has meant to "be a man" in societies influenced by the ideals of Victorian upper and middle classes. It shows that rugby has been a means of promoting male exclusivity, but also been a means of cultural incorporation...read more
Hardcover:
9780714646374 | Routledge, April 1, 1996, cover price $215.00 | About this edition: This text looks at how an understanding of rugby can provide insight into what it has meant to "be a man" in societies influenced by the ideals of Victorian upper and middle classes.
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9780714641560 | Routledge, September 1, 1995, cover price $62.95 | About this edition: This text looks at how an understanding of rugby can provide insight into what it has meant to "be a man" in societies influenced by the ideals of Victorian upper and middle classes.
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