More Than Cricket And Football

Author : Joel Nathan Rosen
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496809912
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More than Cricket and Football written by Joel Nathan Rosen and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2016-12-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the presumed dominance of American sport, many fans throughout the hemisphere find it difficult to envision the role of sport beyond the confines of their own continent. And yet, world sport consists of so much more than the games Americans play and so much more than the stereotype of cricket for the elite and football for the working class. As worldwide sport continues to gain in popularity, we also see parallels to many aspects visible in North American sport, particularly celebrity and all its trappings and pitfalls. The success of athletes from other countries in basketball and ice hockey, and the proliferation of stars imported and now exported to and from North America, provides some better examples of sport's international power. It also creates a very new kind of sport celebrity, albeit one that often shows a rather limited reach beyond that star's own country or continent. Thus, rather than focusing on the Western Hemisphere, this collection of some of world sport's most heralded celebrities (including stars of Motocross, surfing, distance running, and more) serves as a sort of passport to many places that make up our global sporting environment.

Author : Joel Nathan Rosen
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496809890
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More than Cricket and Football written by Joel Nathan Rosen and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2016-12-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the presumed dominance of American sport, many fans throughout the hemisphere find it difficult to envision the role of sport beyond the confines of their own continent. And yet, world sport consists of so much more than the games Americans play and so much more than the stereotype of cricket for the elite and football for the working class. As worldwide sport continues to gain in popularity, we also see parallels to many aspects visible in North American sport, particularly celebrity and all its trappings and pitfalls. The success of athletes from other countries in basketball and ice hockey, and the proliferation of stars imported and now exported to and from North America, provides some better examples of sport's international power. It also creates a very new kind of sport celebrity, albeit one that often shows a rather limited reach beyond that star's own country or continent. Thus, rather than focusing on the Western Hemisphere, this collection of some of world sport's most heralded celebrities (including stars of Motocross, surfing, distance running, and more) serves as a sort of passport to many places that make up our global sporting environment.

Author : Maarten van Bottenburg
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252026546
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Games written by Maarten van Bottenburg and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed and coherent account of the social significance and the politics underlying sports, Global Games demonstrates that sports are not a trivial pursuit but are deeply embedded in the way individuals and nations wish to be perceived. Book jacket.

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Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Author : Mr Jack Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136317201
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cricket and England written by Mr Jack Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at the inter-war period, this work explores the relationship between cricket and English social and cultural values.

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Total Pages : 268 pages
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Author : James Edward Cowell Welldon
Publisher : London ; Toronto : Cassell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recollections and Reflections written by James Edward Cowell Welldon and published by London ; Toronto : Cassell. This book was released on 1915 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mike Huggins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113432197X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport and the English, 1918-1939 written by Mike Huggins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A closer look at sport in England between the wars, discovering its social meaning as a recreational or pleasurable pursuit as well as an expression of national identity.

Author : Cyril Lionel Robert James
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822313830
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond a Boundary written by Cyril Lionel Robert James and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In C. L. R. James's classic Beyond a Boundary, the sport is cricket and the scene is the colonial West Indies. Always eloquent and provocative, James--the "black Plato," (as coined by the London Times)--shows us how, in the rituals of performance and conflict on the field, we are watching not just prowess but politics and psychology at play. Part memoir of a boyhood in a black colony (by one of the founding fathers of African nationalism), part passionate celebration of an unusual and unexpected game, Beyond a Boundary raises, in a warm and witty voice, serious questions about race, class, politics, and the facts of colonial oppression. Originally published in England in 1963 and in the United States twenty years later (Pantheon, 1983), this second American edition brings back into print this prophetic statement on race and sport in society.

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Total Pages : 906 pages
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