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Sport In Victorian Dublin

by Julien Clenet

~~58,53€~~ 52,68€ 10% OFF

 This book maps out the emergence and development of modern sport in Victorian Dublin. It highlights how social class, gender, political allegiance and local pride were crucial to creating sporting identities and where leisure activities reinforced oneâ€™s status within the community.
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Sport In Paris - Retracing The Culture Of Play And Games In The City Of Light (18542024)

~~53,00€~~ 47,70€ 10% OFF

 This book revisits the development of recreational and professional sporting activities in Paris between 1854 and 2024. It surveys the rich and multifaceted history of athletic practices, and constitutes the first comprehensive piece of scholarship exclusively dedicated to the relationship between sport, history, and culture in the City of Light.
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Games, Greek And Pluck - Classicism, Masculinity, Elite Education And British Sport, 18501914

by Andy Carter

~~62,28€~~ 56,05€ 10% OFF

 How classical ideas shaped the elite British maleâ€™s view of his place in the world and his attitudes to masculinity, gender, race, class and duty. How classicism and athleticism were closely entwined in the English public school. The networks of classicists behind the reform of British sport in the late-nineteenth century.
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A Fateful Love - Essays On Football In The North-East Of England 1880-1930

by Gavin Kitching

63,87€ + 10% CARD

 How did the worlds most popular sport begin? How was the ancient family of pastimes called «folk football» transformed into a new codified game - «association football» - which attracted such large numbers of players and paying spectators? Gavin Kitching tackles the question through a strikingly original and deeply researched history of the game in one of its most passionate strongholds: the north-east of England. Making extensive use of previously neglected newspaper reports and other sources, he shows how, in just a few years of the 1870s and 1880s, soccer evolved from its origins as a collective scramble into a dispersed and intricate passing game, exciting and rewarding for players and spectators alike. But the booming popularity of football in the Victorian North-East also had deeply ambiguous consequences - for footballers, for the clubs for which they played, and for the local press which reported the game and further fuelled its popularity. Kitching analyses these ambiguities in chapters on the professionalization and commercialisation of elite soccer in Newcastle and Sunderland and in an account of the «shamateur» Northern League clubs of the Durham coalfield. <EM>A Fateful Love </EM>concludes by tracing these ambiguities through to the present day. The visual excitement and beauty that created professional football lives on, but the mediadriven «commodification» which has marked it from its beginnings has now reached levels which raise profound concerns for the games future.
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Cultures Of Boxing

68,17€ + 10% CARD

 Bringing together boxing writers from different cultural and disciplinary perspectives, the book offers a vital and original contribution to the understanding of this enduringly fascinating and controversial sport. It does this be exploring and interrogating different aspects of boxing culture and associated concepts like masculinity and violence.
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Games, Greek And Pluck - Classicism, Masculinity, Elite Education And British Sport, 1850â€“1914

by Andy Carter

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 How classical ideas shaped the elite British maleâ€™s view of his place in the world and his attitudes to masculinity, gender, race, class and duty. How classicism and athleticism were closely entwined in the English public school. The networks of classicists behind the reform of British sport in the late-nineteenth century.
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Crossing The Line? - The Press And Anglo-German Football Rivalry

by Christoph Wagner

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 <P>Franz Beckenbauer once observed that, in England, «war correspondents get their say whenever their team plays us.» In <I>Crossing the Line?</I>, Christoph Wagner surveys German football rivalry in the second half of the twentieth century as it was played out on the pitch and in the press. The Second World War undoubtedly cast a long shadow, framing the way in which matches were previewed and reported. The contrasting fortunes of the British and West German economies and British anxieties regarding German unification also impacted on sports coverage.</P> <P>An intense Anglo-German international football rivalry was forged against this backdrop. Newspaper readers often turn to the back page first and first impressions are important. Press coverage helped to shape what the English thought of the Germans and what they thought of themselves. <I>Crossing the</I> <I>Line? </I> which includes an important chapter on the German media focuses largely on the part played by English newspapers in generating a simplistic sporting commentary heavily dependent on stereotypes before it overreached itself in the mid-1990s and the German popular press began to hit back. As English football pundits often remind their viewers: «You can never underestimate the Germans».</P>
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Physical Education In Irish Schools, 1900-2000: A History

by Conor Curran

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 This book is the first major examination of the history of physical education in Irish primary and second-level schools throughout the twentieth century. Set within the context of major international developments in the subject, it examines its state in Irish schools prior to and after the partition of the country in 1921.
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A Fateful Love - Essays On Football In The North-East Of England 1880-1930

by Gavin Kitching

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 Using largely untapped local press and archive sources, five of these six essays trace the historical emergence of a professionalised sport out of the family of pastimes that were traditional â€˜football.â€™The final historical essay recounts the â€˜Crook Town affair, a once-famous 1920s â€˜shamateuristâ€™ football scandal in County Durham.
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European Football During The Second World War - Training And Entertainment, Ideology And Propaganda

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 In this edited volume, an international team of authors examines the development of football during the Second World War in a dozen European states. The volume concludes with essays on the representation of the topic in the arts and the media.
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Ladies And Lords - A History Of Womenâ€™S Cricket In Britain

by Rafaelle Nicholson

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 This book offers the first ever academic study of womenâ€™s cricket in Britain from its origins in the 18th century to the present day. Through use of interviews with many former players, the book argues that womenâ€™s cricket was a site of feminism across its history and an important source of empowerment to women who participated in the sport.
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Physical Education In Irish Schools, 1900-2000: A History

by Conor Curran

57,24€ + 10% CARD

 <P>This book is the first major examination of the history of physical education in Irish primary and second level schools in the twentieth century. Set within the context of major international developments in the subject, it examines its state in these schools prior to the partition of Ireland in 1921. It assesses the reasons why physical drills status was reduced in the Irish Free States primary schools in the mid-1920s and accounts for the failure to fully implement the Sokol system in the following decade. Despite the efforts of a number of educationalists and those in the media to draw attention to the subjects neglect, it was not until the late 1960s that concrete action was taken to provide compulsory physical education in what had become the Republic of Ireland. However, following the foundation of the National College of Physical Education in 1973, problems remained, with the countrys schools still lagging behind those in many other European nations in terms of curricular time given to the subject by the late 1990s. In Northern Ireland, treatment of physical education was more closely aligned to developments in other parts of the United Kingdom, but progress was also slow in many schools. </P>
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Women, Sport And Modernity In Interwar Britain

by Fiona Skillen

74,33€ + 10% CARD

 This book offers a unique examination of womenâ€™s increasing involvement in sport during the period 1919-1939. Focusing primarily on sites of participation, it analyses where and how women accessed sport across class, age and marital groups. It also demonstrates the diverse ways in which sport was incorporated into their everyday lives.
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A History Of Football In North And South Korea C.19102002 - Development And Diffusion

by Jong Sung Lee

71,35€ + 10% CARD

 This volume assesses footballâ€™s changing politics and culture in Korea during the twentieth century. It analyses the diffuse development of football in the two Koreas from the following angles: Nationalism and Regionalism, Internationalism and Globalism, Patrons, and the Korean style of play.
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Football, Ethnicity And Community - The Life Of An African-Caribbean Football Club

by Paul Ian Campbell

76,25€ + 10% CARD

 <STRONG>Winner of the British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2017</STRONG> <P>This book is a case study of an African-Caribbean-founded football club, Meadebrook Cavaliers, from the English East Midlands. Covering the years 1970 to 2010, it seeks to address the paucity of research on the British African-Caribbean male experience in leisure and sport as well as on the relationship between «race» and local-level football. The development of the club was intimately connected to wider changes in the social and sporting terrain. Based on a mix of archival and ethnographic research, the book examines the clubs growth over four decades, exploring the attitudes, social realities and identity politics of its African-Caribbean membership and the varying demands and expectations of the wider black community. In doing so, it shows how studies of minority ethnic and local football clubs can shed light on the changing social identities and cultural dynamics of the communities that constitute them.</P>
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Building Europe With The Ball - Turning Points In The Europeanization Of Football, 19051995

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 This book examines European footballâ€™s development from a long-term transnational perspective, from 1905 to 1995. It offers a space for discussion between young and more experienced historians from different countries, leading to a better understanding of the turning points in the Europeanisation of the game.
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Building Europe With The Ball - Turning Points In The Europeanization Of Football, 1905â€“1995

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 This book examines European footballâ€™s development from a long-term transnational perspective, from 1905 to 1995. It offers a space for discussion between young and more experienced historians from different countries, leading to a better understanding of the turning points in the Europeanisation of the game.
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Cultural Contexts And Literary Forms - Essays On Genre

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 Genres mutate, disappear, travel through translation and sometimes re-emerge. This volume includes not only theoretical considerations of the boundaries and scope of genre but also case studies of science fiction, poetry, aphorism, immigrant writing, filmic adaptation and the role of translation in genre.
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Cultures Of Boxing

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 Bringing together boxing writers from different cultural and disciplinary perspectives, the book offers a vital and original contribution to the understanding of this enduringly fascinating and controversial sport. It does this be exploring and interrogating different aspects of boxing culture and associated concepts like masculinity and violence.
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Professionals, Amateurs And Performance - Sports Coaching In England, 1789â€“1914

by David John Day

63,48€

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 Explores the foundations of coaching and training practices and chronicles how traditional approaches to performance preparation evolved during the nineteenth century. This book was shortlisted for the Lord Aberdare Prize 2013.
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A History Of Football In North And South Korea C.1910â€“2002 - Development And Diffusion

by Jong Sung Lee

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 This volume assesses footballs changing politics and culture in Korea during the twentieth century. It analyses the diffuse development of football in the two Koreas from the following angles: Nationalism and Regionalism, Internationalism and Globalism, Patrons, and the Korean style of play.
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Women, Sport And Modernity In Interwar Britain

by Fiona Skillen

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 This book offers a unique examination of womenâ€™s increasing involvement in sport during the period 1919-1939. Focusing primarily on sites of participation, it analyses where and how women accessed sport across class, age and marital groups. It also demonstrates the diverse ways in which sport was incorporated into their everyday lives.
ENGLISH

Football, Ethnicity And Community - The Life Of An African-Caribbean Football Club

by Paul Ian Campbell

63,48€

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 A case study of an African-Caribbean-founded football club, Meadebrook Cavaliers, from the English East Midlands. Covering the years 1970 to 2010, it seeks to address the paucity of research on the British African-Caribbean male experience in leisure and sport as well as on the relationship between "race" and local-level football.
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Professionals, Amateurs And Performance - Sports Coaching In England, 17891914

by David John Day

77,65€ + 10% CARD

 Explores the foundations of coaching and training practices and chronicles how traditional approaches to performance preparation evolved during the nineteenth century. This book was shortlisted for the Lord Aberdare Prize 2013.

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