| Description |
1 online resource. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [154]-170) and index. |
| Contents |
Capitalism and the birth of modern sport -- Class conflict and the decline of traditional games -- Sport, nationalism and the French Revolution -- The middle-class invention of amateurism -- Women and the masculine kingdom of sport -- The Victorian sporting industrial revolution -- Sport and the age of empire -- Unfair play: the racial politics of sport -- Soccer's rise to globalism -- The second revolution: sport between the world wars -- Revolutionary sport -- Sex, drugs and the sport in the Cold War -- Taking sides in the 1960s -- The revolution is being televised -- Winners and losers: Sport in the New World Order. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Perth, W.A. Available via World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Sports -- Political aspects.
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Sports -- Economic aspects.
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Sports and state.
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Capitalism.
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| Added Author |
Ebooks Corporation
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| Related To |
Original 9780415813556 0415813557 9780415813563 0415813565 9780203068113 0203068114 (DLC) 2012039888 |
| ISBN |
1135081999 (electronic bk.) |
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9781135081997 (electronic bk.) |
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9780415813556 (hbk) |
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0415813557 (hbk) |
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9780415813563 (pbk) |
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0415813565 (pbk) |
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9780203068113 (ebk) |
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0203068114 (ebk) |
| UPC # |
40022471901 |
| OCLC # |
EBC1170291 |
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