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  • Global Markets and Global Impact of Sports

    SportsWorld

    Edited by John Nauright, Sarah Zipp ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    This book is a concept we use to explain the invasive and pervasive role of sport in global society and in each country around the world. From the origins of modern sports to today, sports have become more and more commercial, global, and universally understood as important parts of economies, cultures, and political debates. The 2018 thawing of relations on the Korean Peninsula, and between North ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Global Sport

    Edited by John Nauright, Sarah Zipp ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The story of global sport is the story of expansion from local development to globalized industry, from recreational to marketized activity. Alongside that, each sport has its own distinctive history, sub-cultures, practices and structures.This ambitious new volume offers state-of-the-art overviews of the development of every major sport or classification of sport, examining their history, socio ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Sports around the World

    History, Culture, and Practice [4 volumes]

    Edited by John Nauright ...
    This multivolume set is much more than a collection of essays on sports and sporting cultures from around the world: it also details how and why sports are played wherever they exist, and examines key charismatic athletes from around the world who have transcended their sports.Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice provides a unique, global overview of sports and sports cultures. ... Read more

    $379.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Sport, Race and Ethnicity

    Edited by John Nauright, David K Wiggins ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Few issues have engaged sports scholars more than those of race and ethnicity. Today, globalization and migration mean all major sports leagues include players from around the globe, bringing into play a complex mix of racial, ethnic, cultural, political and geographical factors. These complexities have been examined from many angles by historians, sociologists, anthropologists and scientists. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Making the Rugby World

    Race, Gender, Commerce

    Edited by Timothy J.L. Chandler, John Nauright ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    This book explores the expansion of rugby from its imperial and amateur upper-class white male core into other contexts throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The development of rugby in the racially divided communities of the setter empire and how this was viewed are explored initially. Then the editors turn to four case studies of rugby's expansion beyond the bounds of the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Sport Business in Leading Economies

    Edited by Professor James J. Zhang, Professor Haiyan Huang, Professor John Nauright ...
    From a renowned group of international scholars, this new work examines how leading economic countries use sport business, particularly individual sports events (such as the Olympics or FIFA Men’s or Women’s World Cup) as well as participant sport, in comprehensive plans toward driving and furthering economic development, raising brand awareness (country as a brand), transforming lagging ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • The Rugby World in the Professional Era

    Edited by John Nauright, Tony Collins ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    Twenty years of professionalism has seen rugby union undergo dramatic transformations, from changes to everyday training cultures to the growth of the Rugby World Cup into one of the largest global sporting events. The Rugby World in the Professional Era is the first book to examine the effect that professionalism has had across a number of different aspects of the game and the wider socio ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Beyond C. L. R. James

    Shifting Boundaries of Race and Ethnicity in Sports

    Edited by John Nauright, Alan G. Gobley, David K. Wiggins ...
    Series series Sports in modern america
    Beyond C. L. R. James brings together essays analyzing the intercon¬nections among race, ethnicity, and sport. Published in memory of C. L. R. James, the revolutionary sociologist and writer from Trinidad who penned the famous autobiographical account of cricket titled Beyond a Boundary, this collection of essays, many of which originated at the 2010 conference on race and ethnicity in sport at ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Soccer around the World

    A Cultural Guide to the World's Favorite Sport

    by Charles Parrish, John Nauright ...
    Two leading sports authorities explore the culture of soccer around the world, considering the sport as a means to better understand a society's past, present, and future.How popular is soccer worldwide? Here's one indicator: 3.2 billion people—nearly half of the planet's population—tuned in to watch the 2010 World Cup on television. Soccer matches attract a gargantuan number of fans from around ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Research Themes for Events

    by Anna Borley, Alan Clarke, Larry Dwyer, Malcolm Foley, Matthew Frew, Gemma Gelder, Andrea Giampiccoli, Joe Goldblatt, Gordon Hunt, Leo Jago, Allan Jepson, Jennifer Jones, Clare Mackay, Kevin Markwell, Laura Misener, John Nauright, Gordon Waitt, Debra Wale, Seungwoo Lee ...
    *The first book to cover events management from a research angle *Includes a number of case studies to provide a well-rounded approach to the subject *Addresses key concepts, theories and discussions around subjects such as consumer behaviour, authenticity and new technology ... Read more

    $118.99 USD

  • Sport and Revolutionaries

    Reclaiming the Historical Role of Sport in Social and Political Activism

    Edited by John Nauright, David K Wiggins ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    This collection examines the role of sport in the lives of key revolutionary thinkers and leftist activists. In contrast to those who take a more romantic view of sport and believe in its apolitical nature, the eight essays help make clear how sport has served as a site for political activism and the revolutionary thought and practices of such individuals as Henry Mayers Hyndman, Vladimer Ilyich ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Sport in the African World

    Edited by John Nauright, Mahfoud Amara ...
    Sport has been a component of African cultural life for several hundred years. In today’s globalized world, Africans and Africa have become a vital part of the international sporting landscape. This is the first book to attempt to survey the historical, contemporary and geographical breadth of that landscape, drawing on multidisciplinary scholarship from around the world.To gain an understanding ... Read more

    $62.99 USD