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  • Tecumseh

    A Life

    by John Sugden ...
    "[A] masterful study of the life of the Shawnee leader . . . [who] left an indelible imprint on the history of his people and on American history." —David Dixon, HistoryNetIf Sitting Bull is the most famous Indian, Tecumseh is the most revered. Although Tecumseh literature exceeds that devoted to any other Native American, this is the first reliable biography—thirty years in the making—of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sir Francis Drake

    by Dr John Sugden ...
    More than four hundred years after his death, Sir Francis Drake remains one of the legendary figures of history. His career is one of the most colourful on record. The most daring of the corsairs who raided the West Indies and Spanish Main, he led the English into the Pacific, and cirumnavigated the world to bring home the Golden Hind laden with Spanish treasure. His attacks on Spanish cities and ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Nelson

    The Sword of Albion

    by John Sugden ...
    This second volume concludes the most comprehensive and intimate portrait of the life of Horatio Nelson ever written."This superb warts-and-all biography details the awe-inspiring ups and downs of the final eight years of British Admiral Horatio Nelson's life. Sugden's meticulously research, highly readable work will no doubt be the definitive portrait of a brilliant, fearless, inspiring warrior ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Scum Airways

    Inside Football's Underground Economy

    by John Sugden ...
    Football is big business and it doesn't come much bigger than Manchester United – commercial giants and the richest club in the world. But in the shadow of Old Trafford a black economy is growing to rival the commercial power of the official sales channels. Scum Airways is an inside investigation of the Manchester grafters – touts, black marketeers and shady dealers – who, led by characters like ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Sport and Peace-Building in Divided Societies

    Playing with Enemies

    by John Sugden, Alan Tomlinson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    Sport is a cultural institution that stands at the interface between political and civil society. In divided communities, sport has been an agent of separation, sectarian hatred and violence, but also a highly effective tool for conflict resolution, reconciliation and peace-building.In this important study, John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson draw on their extensive international experience of working ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Football, Corruption and Lies

    Revisiting 'Badfellas', the book FIFA tried to ban

    by John Sugden, Alan Tomlinson ...
    World football is in crisis. The corruption scandal engulfing FIFA is arguably the biggest story in the history of modern sport and a watershed for sport governance. More than a decade ago, John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson laid the foundations for subsequent investigations with the publication of Badfellas, a groundbreaking work of critical sport sociology that exposed the systematic corruption at ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Power Games

    A Critical Sociology of Sport

    Edited by John Sugden, Alan Tomlinson ...
    Critical and radical perspectives have been central to the emergence of the sociology of sport as a discipline in its own right. This ground-breaking new book is the first to offer a comprehensive theory and method for a critical sociology of sport. It argues that class, political economy, hegemony and other concepts central to the radical tradition are essential for framing, understanding and ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Watching the Olympics

    Politics, Power and Representation

    Edited by John Sugden, Alan Tomlinson ...
    Global sporting events involve the creation, management and mediation of cultural meanings for consumption by massive media audiences. The apotheosis of this cultural form is the Olympic Games. This challenging and provocative new book explores the Olympic spectacle, from the multi-media bidding process and the branding and imaging of the Games, to security, surveillance and control of the Olympic ... Read more

    $67.99 USD