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Sport in capitalist society : a short history
- Title
- Sport in capitalist society : a short history / Tony Collins.
- Author
- Collins, Tony, 1961-
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 2013.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 178 p.; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [154]-170) and index.
- Contents
- Capitalism and the birth of modern sport -- Class conflict and the decline of traditional games -- Sport, nationalism and the French Revolution -- The middle-class invention of amateurism -- Women and the masculine kingdom of sport -- The Victorian sporting industrial revolution -- Sport and the age of empire -- Unfair play: the racial politics of sport -- Soccer's rise to globalism -- The second revolution: sport between the world wars -- Revolutionary sport -- Sex, drugs and the sport in the Cold War -- Taking sides in the 1960s -- The revolution is being televised -- Winners and losers: Sport in the New World Order.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-4739
- ISBN
- 9780415813556 (hbk)
- 0415813557 (hbk)
- 9780415813563 (pbk)
- 0415813565 (pbk)
- 9780203068113 (ebk)
- 0203068114 (ebk)
- LCCN
- 2012039888
- 40022471901
- OCLC
- 806017248
- Author
- Collins, Tony, 1961-
- Title
- Sport in capitalist society : a short history / Tony Collins.
- Imprint
- New York : Routledge, 2013.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [154]-170) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40022471901
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-4739