Books in the Sport in the Global Society series

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 volume studies the formative period of racing between 1790 and 1914.

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.

Examines the tension between traditional models of Japanese sport, developed over centuries of relative isolation, and the forces of modernization and Japanese determination to become a global power.

A collection of essays considering the far-reaching influence of modern sport over all aspects of modern life across the globe, touching social politics, gender, religion and class. This book was previously published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.

These essays provide a critical investigation of football cultures, examining local and national impacts of the game's new millennial order over five continents.

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.

Behind the spectacle of entertainment, sport is a subject with political issues at every level. This book seeks to explore some aspects of the notion of power in sport in south Asia and among south Asians abroad.

Cricket has been subject to a number of changes. This collection of essays assesses the developments within major playing nations between the World Cups. Seeking to answer various questions, it focuses on racial and ethnic tensions and their place in the globalized, cricketing environment.

Explores life in the mining villages of the north-east of England in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - a time of massive social and industrial change.

This book examines 1930s football in England in its social, economic and political context by focusing on 10 of the top players of the era. It sheds light on the decade that saw players taking on a public persona as 'terrace heroes,'

This book takes stock of British football at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

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

A selection of essays exploring the role of social institutions and political, economic and technological change in shaping the sport of middle class Victorians and Edwardians.

This book analyses the Tour de France over its long history both as France's most prestigious and famous sporting event and as a European and, increasingly, a world cycling competition.

1. Sport and Globalisation: The Issues 2. Sport, Prestige and International Relations 3. Not for the Good of the Game: Crises and Credibility in the Governance of World Football 4. Olympic Survivals: The Olympic Games as a Global Phenomenon 5. Alternative Models for the Regulation of Global Sport.

Covering a range of issues which players, fans and administrators will have to confront, this study looks at the impact of global marketing industries, shareholding and the financial powers of mass media.

The contributors to this collection argue that sport remains an understudied aspect of international relations, and that the growth of its importance should be seen in the complex interdependencies and global systems of governance.

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

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

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.

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.