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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.

UNISA996384340103316

Titolo

By the King and Queen, a proclamation [[electronic resource] ] : whereas Their Majesties have received information that the persons herein particularly named have conspired together .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb ..., 1690

Descrizione fisica

1 broadside

Altri autori (Persone)

Mary, Queen of England,  <1662-1694.>

William, King of England,  <1650-1702.>

Soggetti

Great Britain History William and Mary, 1689-1702

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Given at our court at Whitehall, the fourteenth day of July 1690, in the second year of our reign."

Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0062