As Sydney prepares to host next year's Olympic Games, this timely volume examines the cultural im...

This book explores the expansion of rugby from its imperial and amateur upper-class white male co...

The field of sports history is no longer a fledgling area of study. There is a great vitality in ...

Few issues have engaged sport scholars more than that of race and ethnicity. This is the first bo...

This is the first book to examine the effects of professionalism and the socio-cultural significa...

The story of global sport is the story of expansion from local development to globalized industry...

This book is a concept we use to explain the invasive and pervasive role of sport in global socie...

This book describes how the field of sports history has matured dramatically over the past decade...

Two leading sports authorities explore the culture of soccer around the world, considering the sp...

This is the first book to examine the effect that professionalism has had across a number of diff...

Sport has been a component of African cultural life for several hundred years. In today's globali...