Böcker i Sport in the Global Society-serien

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.

A collection of essays, which consider American sports in their social, economic, cultural and political aspects, charting their evolution. It considers the relationship between the developed and developing world; and culture and masculinity.

Challenging the respectable image of Victorian society, this collection explores the sinful side of middle-class Victorian leisure, highlighting the problematic relationship between public respectability and private pleasure.

This work traces the history, achievements and prospects of football in India and among global south Asian communities.

This collection explores the relationship between sport and war.

A record of the role of selected middle-class individuals across Europe who made notable contributions to the early evolution of modern sport and who saw success in modern sport as an expression of human qualities to be admired.

This book offers original interpretations of the `built environments¿ that shape sport in U.S. society. The volume details the complex political, economic, social, and cultural issues that shaped the construction of the nation¿s most iconic modern buildings ¿ the new American secular cathedrals.

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.This book was based on two special issues of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

A detailed account of the central role of recreation in the lives of the working class in the north-east of England, showing how it was an essential relief from the hard living and working conditions of Victorian and Edwardian mining communities.

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