This volume traces the rise and transformation of organized sport and its impact on social patterns and gender roles. Stressing the essential continuity of the
Sport celebrates basic human values of freedom, justice and courage. This collection of essays probes beneath those assumptions in order to illuminate how sport
The nineteenth century was a golden age in British sports. Not only were sports immensely popular, but they began to assume the forms and qualities that still c
When originally published in 1991 this was the first book to tackle the UK policy process of sport and to provide a political science analysis of some of the ke
This volume examines modern sport in its social context and concludes that it is beset with over-commercialised motives, damaged by dangerous political alignmen