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Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 451

Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-01-11
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This text looks at how an understanding of rugby can provide insight into what it has meant to "be a man" in societies influenced by the ideals of Victorian upper and middle classes. It shows that rugby has been a means of promoting male exclusivity, but also been a means of cultural incorporation.

The Making of New Zealand Cricket
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

The Making of New Zealand Cricket

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-08-02
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  • Publisher: Routledge

It is generally forgotten that cricket rather than rugby union was the 'national game' in New Zealand until the early years of the twentieth century. This book shows why and how cricket developed in New Zealand and how its character changed across time. Greg Ryan 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. He then considers issues such as cricket and social class in the emerging cities; cricket and the elite school system; the function of the game in shaping relations between the New Zealand provinces; cricket e...

The Future of Football
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

The Future of Football

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-11-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

World football has undergone unprecedented change over the past decade. On the field, the richest European clubs have retained their pre-eminence, but with multinational playing squads backed up by global marketing industries. Club ownership rests increasingly with impersonal shareholders, rather than local business figures. Domestic and international football competitions are being transformed by the financial power of the mass media. The world's top players are paid far more than their peers from previous eras. This volume covers a wide range of topical issues which football players, fans and administrators will have to confront in the years to come.

The Tour De France, 1903-2003
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

The Tour De France, 1903-2003

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-08-02
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  • Publisher: Routledge

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. This study provides interdisciplinary and varied perspectives on the sporting, cultural, social, economic and political significance of the Tour within and outside France, giving a comprehensive and authoritative investigation of up-to-the minute thinking on what the Tour means, now and in the past, to competitors, to France, to the French public, to the cultural history of sport, and the sport of cycling itself.

Soccer in South Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 206

Soccer in South Asia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10-23
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The place of football in the colonial and post-colonial past is explored and both British and Portuguese influences on the development of the game are considered. Contemporary issues such as the impact of the professional league in India and the role of UK Asians in the organization of the Indian game are considered. Future scenarios are explored and models for progression and problems facing the sport in south Asia are outlined.

The Worcester Almanac, Directory and Business Advertiser
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 672

The Worcester Almanac, Directory and Business Advertiser

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1883
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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A Study Guide for Raymond Chandler's
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 30

A Study Guide for Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep"

A Study Guide for Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

British Sport
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

British Sport

Volume three of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.

Indigenous London
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

Indigenous London

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Maps -- 1. The Unhidden City: Imagining Indigenous Londons -- Interlude One: A Devil's Looking Glass, circa 1676 -- 2. Dawnland Telescopes: Making Colonial Knowledge in Algonquian London 1580-1630 -- Interlude Two: A Debtor's Petition 1676 -- 3. Alive from America: Indigenous Diplomacies and Urban Disorder 1710-1765 -- Interlude Three: Atlantes 1761 -- 4. "Such Confusion As I Never Dreamt": Indigenous Reasonings in an Unreasonable City 1766-1785 -- Interlude Four: A Lost Museum 1793

Lost Histories of Indian Cricket
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 172

Lost Histories of Indian Cricket

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-01-16
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Lost Histories of Indian Cricket studies the personalities and controversies that have shaped Indian cricket over the years and brings to life the intensity surrounding India's national game. It may be true that that cricket today arouses more passions in India than in any other cricket playing country in the world. Yet, when it comes to writing on the history of the game, Indians have been reticent and much of the past has been obscured and lost. Majumdar here recovers this history and restores it to its rightful place in India's rich sporting heritage.