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  • The Early Years of the Football Association

    Cunning, Moribund, Resurgent

    by Graham Curry ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    Over the past two decades, academic, sociological/historical writing on football has flourished, mainly on the back of the debate over the game's early development led by Eric Dunning, Graham Curry, Tony Collins, and Adrian Harvey. This book adds to that debate, providing more information on the early meetings of the Football Association.The initial two chapters constitute the centrepiece of the ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • From the Privileged to the Professionals

    The Early Years of the FA Cup

    by Graham Curry ...
    Series series Routledge Soccer Histories
    This book is concerned with the early years of the Football Association Challenge Cup – more commonly known as the FA Cup – examining events from its inception in 1871–2 to the beginning of the Football League in 1888–9. The work is underpinned by the figurational sociology of Norbert Elias, employing his ideas around the European 'civilising process', power and lengthening chains of human ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Association Football

    A Study in Figurational Sociology

    by Graham Curry, Eric Dunning ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sports History
    This book presents a synthesis of the work on early football undertaken by the authors over the past two decades. It explores aspects of a figurational approach to sociology to examine the early development of football rules in the middle part of the nineteenth century. The book tests Dunning’s status rivalry hypothesis to contest Harvey’s view of football’s development which stresses an ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Football’s Past Revisited

    Further Investigations into the Early Development of the Game

    Edited by Graham Curry ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    This book delves into the complex, yet fascinating evolution of football. From a relatively unruly mob game played on festival days, the game was adopted, codified and 'civilised' by the major English Public Schools and then diffused into the wider society to become a codified, modern sports-form. The birth of the Football Association in 1863 in London provided compromise rules, enabling teams ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • The Early Development of Football

    Contemporary Debates

    Edited by Graham Curry ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sports History
    This fascinating collection brings together leading football historians and sociologists from the UK, Germany, the USA and Australia to offer fresh perspectives on the early development of football (soccer), not only illuminating our understanding of the early history of the world’s most popular sport, but also the importance of sport in our broader social and cultural history.The book presents ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • The Origins of CSIRO

    Science and the Commonwealth Government 1901-1926

    by George Currie, John Graham ...
    March 16th, 1966, marked the jubilee of Commonwealth sponsored scientific research in Australia. In 1916 the Commonwealth Government set up an Advisory Council of Science and Industry. This was the culmination of an interest in scientific research which went back to the very beginning of federation and had been expressed by active attempts to bring science to the aid of agriculture. This book is ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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    Love Songs (Unabridged)

    by George Graham Currie ...
    Narrated by Marina Skeels, Norma Stark, Lauren Roberts ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 31 min

    In the heart-wrenching and evocative "Love Songs (Unabridged)," George Graham Currie weaves a tapestry of love, loss, and longing. Through a series of interconnected stories, we follow the lives of ordinary people as they navigate the complexities of human relationships. From the first blush of new love to the bittersweet ache of heartbreak, Currie's lyrical prose captures the raw emotions that ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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    Bloody Bead

    by Manning Wolfe, Helen Currie Foster ...
    Narrated by Penelope Graham ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - Bullet Books Speed Reads

    Unabridged

    3 hours

    MURDER SMELLS FOUL…Juan Agosto smells death at dawn in trash bins near Mrs. Wong’s home. A single white pop bead stuck in blood indicates foul play. Juan’s job as a trash collector in the suburbs of Denver didn’t prepare him for this, but his life before his escape from Sinaloa did. Will local cops Teresa Agosto and Joelle McVay be able to solve a horrific murder and find justice for the victim…Or ... Read more

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  • More Than A Game

    The Story of Cricket's Early Years

    by John Major ...
    The former Prime Minister examines the early history of one of the great loves of his life in a book that sheds new light on the summer game’s social origins.All his life John Major has loved cricket. In ‘More Than a Game’ he examines it from its origins up to the coming of the First World War. Along the way he considers the crucial role of the wealthy patrons who gambled huge sums on early ... Read more

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  • Arlott, Swanton and the Soul of English Cricket

    by Stephen Fay, David Kynaston ...
    **WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH CRICKET BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019'Beautifully written, meticulously researched and stuffed with rich sporting and social history ... Unputdownable'** Mail on SundayAfter the Second World War, as the BBC tightened its grip on the national consciousness, two of the most famous English voices were commentators on games of cricket. John Arlott and E.W. ('Jim') Swanton ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain

    A Social and Cultural History

    by Tony Collins ...
    Called ‘the greatest game of all’ by its supporters but often overlooked by the cultural mainstream, no sport is more identified with England’s northern working class than rugby league.This book traces the story of the sport from the Northern Union of the 1900s to the formation of the Super League in the 1990s, through war, depression, boom and deindustrialisation, into a new economic and social ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Terrace Heroes

    The Life and Times of the 1930s Professional Footballer

    by Graham Kelly ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    The 1930s saw the birth of the football idol - prototype for today's powerful media sport stars. The players of the 1930s were the first generation of professionals, yet until recently the life and careers of footballers of this generation has been little studied. In 1930s Britain, football became increasingly commercialized, and the rise and development of both local and national media enabled ... Read more

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