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  • Football in Southeastern Europe

    From Ethnic Homogenization to Reconciliation

    Edited by John Hughson, Fiona Skillen ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    This volume draws together scholarship across a number of disciplines – history, sociology, media and cultural studies, political science, Slavonic Studies – to examine the significance of the sport of football within Southeastern Europe, with an especial focus on countries of the former Yugoslavia. The volume is timely as there is growing recognition inside and beyond the academy that football is ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Sport in Museums

    Edited by Kevin Moore, John Hughson, Christian Wacker ...
    This book explores, in breadth and depth, the role of sport in museums.It surveys the history of sport in museums, including the growth in sport museums and halls of fame driven by major sports teams and sport organisations. The book considers the humanistic benefits of the promotion of sporting heritage within museums, and presents cases, museums stories and best practice from around the world ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Costume

    A Volume for the London Olympics

    by John Hughson ...
    This volume, consisting of papers originally delivered at the Sport and Fashion symposium in 2011, celebrates the connection between sport and the clothes and fashion which are associated with certain sporting activities. Articles include a study of Olympic swimming costumes, women's sport during the inter-war period, the use of sportsmen by clothing industries for brand marketing, and the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Sport in the City

    Cultural Connections

    Edited by Michael P. Sam, John Hughson ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    Sport is seen as an increasingly important aspect of urban and regional planning. Related programmes have moved to the forefront of agendas for cities of the present and future. This has occurred as the barriers between so-called ‘high’ and ‘popular’ culture continue to disintegrate. Sport is now a key component within strategies for the cultural regeneration of cities and regions, a tendency with ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Football Studies

    Edited by John Hughson, Kevin Moore, Ramón Spaaij, Joseph Maguire ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Football is unquestionably the world’s most popular and influential sport. There is no corner of the globe in which the game is not played or followed. More countries are affiliated to FIFA, football’s governing body, than to the United Nations. The sport has therefore become an important component of our social, cultural, political and economic life. The Routledge Handbook of Football Studies is ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Making of Sporting Cultures

    by John Hughson ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    The Making of Sporting Cultures presents an analysis of western sport by examining how the collective passions and feelings of people have contributed to the making of sport as a ‘way of life’. The popularity of sport is so pronounced in some cases that we speak of certain sports as ‘national pastimes’. Baseball in the United States, soccer in Britain and cricket in the Caribbean are among the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • England and the 1966 World Cup

    A cultural history

    by John Hughson ...
    England and the 1966 World Cup presents a cultural analysis of what is considered a key 'moment of modernity' in the nation's post-war history. Regarded as having an importance beyond its primary sporting purpose, the World Cup in England is examined within the complexity of the cultural, social and political changes that characterised the mid-1960s. Yet, although addressing the importance of non ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Containment of Soccer in Australia

    Fencing Off the World Game

    Edited by Christopher Hallinan, John Hughson ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, outdoor soccer was the second most popular organized sport for Australian children after swimming. It far outstripped the popularity of the three other football codes that are played in Australia – rugby league, rugby union and Australian Rules football.Yet the soccer participation phenomenon in Australia is matched neither by the media coverage of ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • New Directions in Sport History

    Edited by Duncan Stone, John Hughson, Rob Ellis ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    Emerging from the ‘history from below’ movement, sport history was marginalised for decades by those working within more traditional historical fields (and institutions). Although a degree of ignorance still exists, sport history has now acquired a level of credibility through the dedicated work of professional historians. And yet, as this authority has been established, changes to UK higher ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Uses of Sport

    by John Hughson, David Inglis, Marcus W. Free ...
    This textbook puts sport in the spotlight of cultural inquiry for the first time. The authors provide the essential resources for the study of sport within culture and popular culture. Sport is an important part of cultural life, yet until recently it has tended to remain on the margins of academic cultural studies.Beginning by considering sport in relation to the pre-cultural studies tradition of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • Playing on the Periphery

    Sport, Identity and Memory

    by Tara Brabazon ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    Part of the Sport in the Global Society series, this innovative and creative text explores collective history, memory, and sport culture, tracking the passage of sports away from England. The author investigates why ‘elite’ English sports – such as rugby and cricket – became national sports in New Zealand and Australia, and asks why ‘working class’ English sports – such as football – have ... Read more

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  • Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games

    Volume Two: Celebrating the Games

    Edited by Vassil Girginov ...
    The Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is the first authoritative and comprehensive account of the world’s greatest sporting and cultural event. It tells the complete story of the 2012 Games from inception, through the successful bidding process and the planning and preparation phase, to delivery, the post-Games period and legacy. Written by a world-class team of ... Read more

    $87.99 USD