Saturday Afternoon Fever II

Edited by Brian Stoddart

Twenty years ago, Saturday Afternoon Fever told us the story of the central place that sport can hold in both a personal and a national...

Published May 15th 2008 by Routledge.

Sports, Virtues and Vices

Morality Plays

By Mike McNamee

Sports have long played an important role in society. By exploring the evolving link between sporting behaviour and the prevailing ethics of the time this comprehensive and...

Published May 9th 2008 by Routledge.

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....

Published May 2nd 2008 by Routledge.

Sport Before the Laughter Left

Edited by Susan Brownell

The 1904 Olympic Games and Anthropology Days were a pivotal point in the history of American anthropology and of the Olympic Games. This is because...

Published April 15th 2008 by Routledge.

Today and Tomorrow

By Various

Originally published between 1926 and 1928 these volumes discuss sport, leisure activities and the future uses of the countryside as a place for pursuing sports,...

Published April 11th 2008 by Routledge.

Rusticus or the Future of the Countryside Diogenes or the Future of Leisure Hanno, or the Future of Exploration Atalanta or the Future of Sport

By Joad, Mitchell, Sandilands, Briggs

Rusticus

Or

The Future of the Countryside

Martin S Briggs

Originally published in 1926

"Few of the fifty volumes, provocative and brilliant as most of them have been,...

Published April 11th 2008 by Routledge.

Nations and Migration, the City and the Dream

Edited by Nina Clara Tiesler, Joao Nuno CoelhoJ. A. ManganBoria MajumdarMark Dyreson

When studying the social phenomena in and around football, five major aspects of globalisation processes become evident: international migration, the global flow of capital, the...

Published April 9th 2008 by Routledge.

Politics and Europeanization on the fringes of the EU

By Gary Armstrong, Jon P. MitchellJennifer HargreavesIan McDonald

What can the history of a nation's football reveal about that nation's wider political and socio-cultural identity? How can the study of local football culture...

Published March 31st 2008 by Routledge.

Japan, the Asian Olympics and the Olympic Movement

By Sandra Collins

By representing their experience of modernity as different from the West in their respective Olympic Games, Asian nations reveal much about the ambitions and anxieties...

Published March 28th 2008 by Routledge.

Region, nation and globe

By Brian Stoddart

Published March 27th 2008 by Routledge.