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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452937403321

Autore

Collins Tony <1961-, >

Titolo

Sport in capitalist society : a short history / / Tony Collins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-06811-4

1-299-46906-X

1-135-08199-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 p.)

Disciplina

796.06/9

Soggetti

Sports - Political aspects

Sports - Economic aspects

Sports and state

Capitalism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; SPORT IN CAPITALIST SOCIETY; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1 Capitalism and the birth of modern sport; 2 Class conflict and the decline of traditional games; 3 Sport, nationalism and the French Revolution; 4 The middle-class invention of amateurism; 5 Women and the masculine kingdom of sport; 6 The Victorian sporting industrial revolution; 7 Sport and the age of empire; 8 Unfair play: the racial politics of sport; 9 Soccer's rise to globalism; 10 The second revolution: sport between the world wars; 11 Revolutionary sport

12 Sex, drugs and sport in the Cold War13 Taking sides in the 1960s; 14 The revolution is being televised; 15 Winners and losers: sport in the New World Order; Conclusion: what future for sport?; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Why are the Olympic Games the driving force behind a clampdown on civil liberties? What makes sport an unwavering ally of nationalism and militarism? Is sport the new opiate of the masses?These and many other questions are answered in this new radical history of sport by leading historian of sport and society, Professor Tony Collins.Tracing



the history of modern sport from its origins in the burgeoning capitalist economy of mid-eighteenth century England to the globalised corporate sport of today, the book argues that, far from the pu

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780720203321

Titolo

Ergativity, valency and voice [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Gilles Authier, Katharina Haude

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter Mouton, c2012

ISBN

1-283-85762-6

3-11-174039-0

3-11-022773-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (396 p.)

Collana

Empirical approaches to language typology, , 0933-761X ; ; 48

Classificazione

ES 480

Altri autori (Persone)

AuthierGilles

HaudeKatharina

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Ergative constructions

Grammar, Comparative and general - Voice

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Generative grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction / Authier, Gilles / Haude, Katharina -- Ergativity and voice in Mayan languages: a functional-typological approach / Grinevald, Colette / Peake, Marc -- Ergativity and the passive in three Mayan languages / Vapnarsky, Valentina / Becquey, Cédric / Becquelin, Aurore Monod -- A tale of two passives in Cavineña / Guillaume, Antoine -- The detransitive voice in Kryz / Authier, Gilles -- Laz middle voice / Lacroix, René -- Argument demotion in Japhug Rgyalrong / Jacques, Guillaume -- The Katukina-Kanamari antipassive / Queixalós, Francesc -- Undergoer orientation in Movima / Haude, Katharina -- Case patterns and verb classes in Trumai / Becquelin, Aurore Monod / Becquey, Cédric -- Ergativity in the Adyghe system of valencychanging



derivations / Letuchiy, Alexander -- The evolution of transitive verbs in Basque and the emergence of dative-marked patients / Mounole, Céline -- Index of subjects -- Index of languages

Sommario/riassunto

This volume is a collection of articles concerned with the typology of valency and valence change in a large and diversified sample of languages that display ergative alignment in their grammar. The sample of languages represented in these descriptive contributions covers most of the geographical areas and linguistic families in which ergativity has been known to exist jointly with well-developed morphological voice, and some languages belonging to families in which ergativity or voice were not previously recognized or adequately described up to now.