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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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Book/textUse in library JFE 14-4739Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Description
viii, 178 p.; 24 cm
Subject
  • Sports > Political aspects
  • Sports > Economic aspects
  • Sports and state
  • Capitalism
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
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