Books in the Sport in the Global Society series

This examination of changes taking place in the world of football focuses on its growing commercialization.

Covering a time of great social and technological change, this book traces the development of the four classic aquatic disciplines of competitive swimming, diving, synchronized swimming and water polo, with its main focus on racing.

The prize-winning War Memorial Gymnasium at the University of British Columbia is discussed here. The book examines what the building's design, construction and shifting functions reveal about the university's values during the post-war years.

This volume looks at the fundamental geography of cricket, especially in England where the game is played by county sides.

Covering the period 1850-2004, this book considers soccer as a derivative sport, imaginatively adapted to suit modern Indian socio-cultural needs and designed to fulfil political imperatives and satisfy economic aspirations. It also deals with the appropriation, assimilation and subversion of sporting ideals in colonial and post-colonial India.

This work analyzes the history of the beach as an integral aspect of Australian culture.

This work examines the national and international importance of sport and its role in shaping post-millennium global culture.

This work explores the use of the image of the male body in European, American and Asian fascism of varying degrees and various interpretations, and the differences and similarities involved.

The relationship between sport and the development of male identity from the 19th to the 20th century is discussed in this collection of studies on the making of modern masculinity.

This book examines the emergence and growth of cricket in relation to diverse patterns of European settlement in New Zealand - such as the systematic colonization schemes of Edward Gibbon Wakefield and the gold discoveries of the 1860s.

Describes the varieties of sport, games and physical education practiced in Western Europe between 450-1650 AD. This book presents changing nature of geopolitical structures, educational systems, religious institutions and the practice of warfare and medicine. It is suitable for various historians of sport and culture.

This book on running and its textual and visual representations challenges traditional views about sporting phenomena, by introducing the work of Yi-Fu Tuan, a key humanistic geographer.

This original book brings Chinese women to the centre of the Chinese cultural stage by examining the role which exercise and, subsequently, sport played in their liberation.

This book examines the construction of national, regional, and group identities in the football journalism of five European countries: England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

Mihir Bose presents this fully updated account of the history of Indian cricket. Turning to his own research and personal experience he traces the development of the game and reveals its central place in modern India's identity, culture and society.

In this text, the first to examine women and sport in Italy during the period 1861-1945, the role women's engagement in sporting activity had upon gender emancipation is explored in the context of the pre-fascist, fascist and post-war eras.

Jon Gemmell analyses the relationship between sport and politics through a historical analysis of South African cricket.

This book takes amateurism seriously as ethical and political theory and examines its rationale, its history, its ethics and economics and the future of amateur values.

Hunting was seen as a manifestation of Darwinian masculinity that maintained a pre-ordained hierarchical order of superordinate and subordinate breeds. This book examines these ideas under such sections as martial imperialism; the self-sacrificial subaltern; and, 'blooding' the middle class martial male.

This is a study of how cricket in England between the Wars reflected the social relations and cultural values of the time.

Tells the story of 'the Lady Footballers'. This book covers their 1895 and 1896 tours through the eyes of the British press. It also explains gender issues of the time, and the financial problems that doomed this experiment.

A study of the origins of the modern Olympic Games and of their founder, Pierre de Coubertin, whose ideological stamp the Olympics bear.

Unknown or forgotten, influential schoolmasters took the game of association football to many parts of England. They brought the game to individual schools and they established regional and national leagues and associations. This story intends to allow a fundamental reappraisal of the status and position of these teachers in 20th century society.

This book explores the role of FIFA in brokering the development of football in Africa and its relationship with that continent's football associations and regional governing body.

Drawing on Chinese sources hitherto unavailable in the West, official documents and interviews with top athletes, the author explores the rise of Chinese super sportswomen.

Looking at the different styles and approaches of a number of key figures, this book explores football management from the early amateur days to the high-profile, multi-faceted and demanding professional role.

Exploring collective history, memory, and sport culture, tracking the export of sports from England; this work analyses differences between popular culture and sporting memory. The author asks why some sports travel well and some do not.