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  • The Castaway

    by John Horne ...
    In May of 1831 a British sailing ship has delivered its cargo of fine English furniture to the island of Jamaica for the Walker West India Company, and is returning homeward with a load of raw sugar, molasses and rum. One of the shipmates aboard this vessel, the Arthur Hoyt - is Ship's Mate Edward Tostig, on his third seagoing voyage and just turned 22 years of age in March of that year. Their ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gallery

    by John Horne Burns ...
    "The first book of real magnitude to come out of the last war." —John Dos PassosJohn Horne Burns brought The Gallery back from World War II, and on publication in 1947 it became a critically-acclaimed bestseller. However, Burns's early death at the age of 36 led to the subsequent neglect of this searching book, which captures the shock the war dealt to the preconceptions and ideals of the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • A Time to Live

    by Mary Burton Horne, John Horne ...
    Except for the baby stirring inside her, Beth never felt so alone. Pregnant with the child of her British pilot fiancé—killed in action before he ever learned he was to become a father—and disowned by her parents, she found herself in a desperate situation. But then, miraculously, came a glimmer of hope when her fiancé's best friend proposes a marriage in name only to take care of her and the baby ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Sports Mega-Events in Asia

    Edited by Koji Kobayashi, John Horne, Younghan Cho, Jung Woo Lee ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is the first comprehensive collection focusing on the hosting of sports mega-events within Asia and their impact on the politics, economics, and culture that shape, and are shaped by, the local idiosyncrasies of host cities and countries across this most culturally diverse continent. From the Olympic Games and single sport World Cups, to the Asian Games and their sub-regional variations, ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Leisure, Culture and the Olympic Games

    Edited by John Horne ...
    This edited collection contains six refreshing critical assessments of the leisure-sport relationship from societies that have staged the Olympic and Paralympic Games and contains valuable information for those who live in societies that aspire to host the Games. The collection begins and ends with discussions of the Olympic Games as a platform for protest. The first and last chapters consider the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Sport, Leisure and Social Relations (RLE Sports Studies)

    Edited by John Horne, David Jary, Alan Tomlinson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sports Studies
    When this book was first published the study of sport had been largely neglected by sociologists. The contributions to this volume bring the sports field, the leisure centre and everyday leisure activities to a more central position within the sociological enterprise. Whether amateur or professional, sport contributes to wider relations of power, privilege and domination and this debate represents ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Militarized Cultural Encounters in the Long Nineteenth Century

    Making War, Mapping Europe

    Edited by Joseph Clarke, John Horne ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book explores European soldiers’ encounters with their continent’s exotic frontiers from the French Revolution to the First World War. In numerous military expeditions to Italy, Spain, Russia, Greece and the ‘Levant’ they found wild landscapes and strange societies inhabited by peoples who needed to be ‘civilized.’ Yet often they also discovered founding sites of Europe’s own ‘civilization’ ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Towards Commemoration

    Edited by John Horne ...
    This book arrives on foot of a decade of commemorations. Contemporary Ireland was founded during the fractious years 1912-1923. From the signing of the Ulster Unionists' Solemn League and Covenant to the partitioning of the country and subsequent Civil War in the Irish Free State, a series of events shaped Ireland for the century to come. Not least of these was World War I. This volume, edited by ... Read more

    $22.69 USD

  • Civilians Under Siege from Sarajevo to Troy

    Edited by Alex Dowdall, John Horne ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This edited volume analyses siege warfare as a discrete type of military engagement, in the face of which civilians are particularly vulnerable. Siege warfare is a form of combat that has usually had devastating effects on civilian populations. From the near-contemporary Siege of Sarajevo to the real and mythical sieges of the ancient Mediterranean, this has been a recurring type of military ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Mega-Events and Globalization

    Capital and Spectacle in a Changing World Order

    Edited by Richard Gruneau, John Horne ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    Since the turn of the twenty first century, there has been a trend for urban "mega events" to be awarded to cities and nations in the East and Global South. Such events have been viewed as economic stimulant as well as opportunities to promote national identity, gain greater international recognition and exercise a form of 'soft power.' However, there has also been on-going controversy about the ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Understanding the Olympics

    by John Horne, Garry Whannel ...
    How did the Olympics evolve into a multi-national phenomenon? How can the Olympics help us to understand the relationship between sport and society? What will be the impact and legacy of the Olympics after Tokyo in 2020? Understanding the Olympics answers all these questions by exploring the social, cultural, political, historical, and economic context of the Games.This thoroughly revised and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Sport and Social Movements

    From the Local to the Global

    by Jean Harvey, Professor John Horne, Parissa Safai, Dr. Simon Darnell, Sebastien Courchesne-O'Neill ...
    Series series Globalizing Sport Studies
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.From neighborhood coalitions organizing against the building of a sport facility for professional sports teams subsidized by public funds, to global campaigns for equity for women in sport, to worldwide bans of apartheid regimes, sites and levels of protest, ... Read more

    $38.09 USD