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  • Sport Matters

    Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence and Civilisation

    by Eric Dunning ...
    1999 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Book AwardSport Matters offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of modern sport from a sociological perspective. It covers such topics as the history of sport, the development of ideas of 'fair play', sport and the emotions, the professionalization of sport, race-relations and sport and sport and gender.Unique in its cross ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Football on Trial

    Spectator Violence and Development in the Football World

    by Eric Dunning ...
    Examines the causes of football hooliganism as a world phenomenon, considering the links between player violence and crowd violence, and the role of the media. It looks ahead to the 1994 World Cup in Los Angeles and asks why soccer hooliganism has not been a problem in the USA. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Roots of Football Hooliganism (RLE Sports Studies)

    An Historical and Sociological Study

    by Eric Dunning, Patrick J. Murphy, John Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sports Studies
    This systematic historical and sociological study of the phenomenon of football hooliganism examines the history of crowd disorderliness at association football matches in Britain and assesses both popular and academic explanations of the problem. The authors’ study starts in the 1880s, when professional football first emerged in its modern form, charting the pre and inter-war periods and ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players

    A Sociological Study of the Development of Rugby Football

    by Kenneth Sheard, Eric Dunning ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    First published in 1979, this classic study of the development of rugby from folk game to its modern Union and League forms has become a seminal text in sport history. In a new epilogue the authors provide sociological analysis of the major developments in international ruby that have taken place since 1979, with particular attention to the professionalism that was predicted in the first edition ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Association Football

    A Study in Figurational Sociology

    by Graham Curry, Eric Dunning ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sports History
    This book presents a synthesis of the work on early football undertaken by the authors over the past two decades. It explores aspects of a figurational approach to sociology to examine the early development of football rules in the middle part of the nineteenth century. The book tests Dunning’s status rivalry hypothesis to contest Harvey’s view of football’s development which stresses an ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Hooligans Abroad (RLE Sports Studies)

    The Behaviour and Control of English Fans in Continental Europe

    by John M. Williams, Eric Dunning, Patrick J. Murphy ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sports Studies
    This book traces international developments in the hooligan phenomenon since the Heysel tragedy of 1985. The authors make special reference to the troubled European championships in West Germany in 1988 and look critically at political responses to the problem. The authors used ‘participant observation’ in their research on British fans at the World Cup in Spain, and at matches in Rotterdam and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • 13 1/2 Reasons Why NOT To Be A Liberal

    And How to Enlighten Others

    by Judd Dunning ...
    THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO WINNING AN ARGUMENT WITH A LIBERAL."Antifa leftists may still burn this book, but more than a few center-left individuals will read 13 1/2 Reasons Why NOT to Be a Liberal and develop a new respectful understanding of conservatism.” — Dinesh D’SouzaAlthough conservatives outnumber liberals in 44 out of 50 states, it’s a situation conservatives know very well in today’s ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Sport

    Readings from a Sociological Perspective

    Edited by Eric Dunning ...
    Series series Heritage
    Sport is something rather taken for granted and little studied as part of man's and society's behaviour. This collection of essays, many of which appear in print for the first time, provides an international comparative and developmental orientation to the sociology of sport, thereby clarifying the nature of modern sports and their central structural and functional characteristics. The sports ... Read more

    $40.39 USD

  • Sport Histories

    Figurational Studies in the Development of Modern Sports

    Edited by Eric Dunning, Dominic Malcolm, Ivan Waddington ...
    Sports Histories draws on figurational sociology to provide a fresh approach to analysing the development of modern sport. The book brings together ten case studies from a wide range of sports, including mainstream sports such as soccer, rugby, baseball, boxing and cricket, to other sports that until now have been largely neglected by sports historians, such as shooting, motor racing, tennis, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD