The essays that comprise this book mark new territory in the study of sport in the Hispanic world, a key site of cultural experience for…

Sport offers everything a good story should have: heroes and villains, triumph and disaster, achievement and despair, tension and drama. Consequently, sport makes for a…

The Making of Sporting Cultures presents an analysis of western sport by examining how the collective passions and feelings of people have contributed to the…

Behind the spectacle of entertainment, sport is a subject with political issues at every level. These issues range from the social, with divisions created along…

The first book to focus solely on the Asian Games, this is an analysis of the Oriental rival to the Olympics in terms of its…

Sport has become more than a simple physical expression or game – it now pervades all societies at all levels and has become bound up…

The use of alcohol and drugs seems contradictory to the popular ideal of sport as a healthy moral and physical pursuit, and yet it has…

A detailed study of sports' arrival, spread and advance in colonial and post-colonial South Asia. A selection of articles addresses critical issues of nationalism, communalism,…

Many Americans know more about the stadiums that loom over their cityscapes or college campuses than they do about any other aspect of the nation’s…

For more than a century, the Olympics have been the modern world's most significant sporting event. Indeed, they deserve much credit for globalizing sport beyond…