Books in the Sport in the Global Society series

This scholarly contribution to the study of sport in films is one of the first of its kind to examine how sport has been used in movies and documentaries as a metaphor for other areas of social life, including insights into the representation of social identities, politics, consumerism and violence

This collection considers women's football in a global context and analyses its progress, and the challenges and problems it has faced.

This revised edition of a classic sport studies text exploring the development of rugby from a folk game into its modern forms has been updated with a substantial new foreword and epilogue, to provide analysis of the developments in international

This book explores the expansion of rugby from its imperial and amateur upper-class white male core into other contexts throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Draws upon theories and concepts from sociology and anthropology, sport and tourism studies, and business studies. This book is an edited collection written by scholars working in a particular domain throughout the world, providing a compendium of theories and concepts that can be used to frame research on various aspects of sport tourism.

As Sydney prepares to host next year's Olympic Games, this timely volume examines the cultural impact of sport on the Australasian countries.

The contributors to this collection of essays explore the symbolic meanings that have been attached to sport in Europe by considering some of the mythic heroes who have dominated the sporting landscapes of their own countries.

A look at sport in America today and down through its history. The book illustrates how sport is used in the creation, maintenance and now global dissemination of a nation's cherished values.

This is a study of masculinity as a metaphor and especially of the muscular male body as a moral symbol. It explores the Nazi's preoccupation with the male body as an icon of political power, and the ideology and theories which propelled it.

This collection uses spatial concepts and examples to examine the nature and development of sporting practices. It shows how the study of built environments such as gymnasiums and football stadiums can provide unique information about the body's capabilities, needs and desires.

Analyses of the power of Olympic legacies, positive and negative, and surveys the subject from Athens in 1896 to Beijing in 2008, and beyond.

Globalization is effecting a close convergence of sport and foreign policy. In order to respond to social, political, cultural and economic pressures, states are turning to sport as a foreign policy instrument and they cannot ignore the corresponding influence that global sport has on their core interests. This book explores this relationship.

This collection of essays charts the development of rugby football from its origins in the English public schools and ancient universities to its acceptance in the farthest reaches of the empire.

This work deals with the infancy, adolescence and maturity of sport in Latin American society. It explores ways in which sport illuminates cultural migration and emigration and indigenous assimilation and adaptation.

The collection examines cases of discrimination directed at individuals or groups, resulting in their exclusion from full participation in sport and their consequent struggle for inclusion. It shows how ethnic and national identity are sources of

This book represents an attempt to fill the significant gap in literature by examining five different aspects of the commercialisation of sport.

With essays covering all aspects of sports history, this volume is a tribute to the scholarship of Professor Tony Mangan. Regarded by many as a pioneer and mentor, Professor Mangan's foundational work has sustained the field for decades.

This book describes the imperial spread of public school games through a consideration of hegemony and patronage, ideals and idealism, educational values and aspirations, cultural assimilation and adaptation.

This book represents an attempt to fill the significant gap in literature by examining five different aspects of the commercialisation of sport.

As the commercialization of sport grows, the need for regulation increases. This work looks at how the law is used in sports, in such areas as money, drugs, and the control of hooliganism.

Presenting a revisionist history of football, this book aims to challenge commonly held beliefs about the birth of the modern game, demonstrating that outside of English public school codification, a long history of an established and organised sport existed.

Cricket arouses more passions in India than in any other cricket playing country in the world. This work studies the personalities and controversies that have shaped Indian cricket over the years, and describes the intensity surrounding India's national game.

In this book Douglas Booth takes a fresh look at the role of sport in the fostering of a new national identity in South Africa.

Those promoting Empire as an expression of white supremacy found Arthur Wharton, the world's first black professional footballer, a supreme irritation, and he eventually died in poverty.

This book focuses on the sport-media phenomenon and analyses such issues as new media technology, gender, ethnicity, collective identity and globalization, as well as aspects of the political economy of the media.

This volume examines the ways in which sport shapes the experiences of various immigrant and minority groups and in particular, looks at the relationship between sport, ethnic identity and ethnic relations.

Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art now spreading over the rest of the world and this book, the only complete history of the art in the English language, traces the history of the martial art and examines its influence on ethnic and national

The contributions here cover the major socio-economic, political, cultural and sporting dimensions of the 1998 World Cup.