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  • A Short History of the Sport Business

    by Wray Vamplew ...
    Series series Short Histories
    This book traces the relationship between sport and commercialization across 2,500 years of history, and offers readers a concise insight into sport as both a practice and profession.By the early 2000s, the international sports business had an estimated global turnover of $512 billion - but when did the commercialization of sport begin? Wray Vamplew takes readers through early commercial sport in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Games People Played

    A Global History of Sport

    by Wray Vamplew ...
    Games People Played is, surprisingly, the first global history of sport. Wray Vamplew shows how sport has been practised, experienced and made meaningful by players and fans, and assesses how sports have developed and diffused across the globe. He examines not only how sport is sociable and health-giving, but how economics has turned sport into a huge consumer industry. Sport’s dark side – its ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Sports Economics for Non-Economists

    by Wray Vamplew ...
    This book cuts through the jargon and complicated formulae to focus on the key concepts in sports economics, introducing the fundamentals in a concise and engaging way to give the reader without a background in economics the tools with which to read and apply sports economics in their work.Full of real-world cases and stories, the book offers a short economic history of sport and explains the ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Numbers and Narratives

    Sport, History and Economics

    by Wray Vamplew ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    This volume argues for a more quantitative, economic and theoretical approach to sports history. The author notes that sport can have peculiar economics as in no other industry do rival businesses have to cooperate to produce a sellable output. He also demonstrates, via a case study of early gate-money football in Scotland, that sports producers were not always seeking profits, and often put ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Sport and Entrepreneurship

    Edited by Dilwyn Porter, Wray Vamplew ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    Sport and Entrepreneurship combines perspectives derived from business history and sports history, focusing on the important but relatively unexplored relationship of entrepreneurship and sport.This important volume offers clearer definitions of both sports products and sports entrepreneurship, gives due regard to social entrepreneurs, and assesses the continuing relevance of Hardy’s pioneering ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Sport and Physical Education: The Key Concepts

    by Tim Chandler, Tim Chandler, Wray Vamplew, Mike Cronin, Mike Cronin ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    An accessible and fully cross-referenced A-Z guide, this book has been written specifically for students of sport studies and physical education, introducing basic terms and concepts. Entries cover such diverse subjects as coaching, drug testing, hooliganism, cultural imperialism, economics, gay games, amateurism, extreme sports, exercise physiology and Olympism.This revised second edition, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of British Football

    Edited by Richard Cox, Dave Russell, Wray Vamplew ...
    This reference work aims to provide sports enthusiasts, journalists, librarians, students and scholars with an authorative source of information on a comprehensive range of subjects covering the history and organization of football in Britain. Over 250 entries focus on key organisations or individuals, famous clubs, major competitions, events, venues and incidents, institutions and organisations ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Methodology in Sports History

    Edited by Wray Vamplew, Dave Day ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    The process of converting the ‘past’ into ‘history’ involves engagement with a multitude of different sources and methods, and sports historians inevitably participate in the same debates over approaches and methodologies as their counterparts in other historical disciplines. At its heart, history remains a genre of empirical knowledge that is based upon the remains of the past, and without ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of British Horse Racing

    Edited by Dr Joyce Kay, Professor Wray Vamplew ...
    Series series Routledge Sports Reference Series
    The Encyclopedia of British Horse Racing offers an innovative approach to one of Britain's oldest sports. While it considers the traditional themes of gambling and breeding, and contains biographies of human personalities and equine stars, it also devotes significant space to neglected areas. Entries include:social, economic and political forces that have influenced racingcontroversial historical ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Sport, History, and Heritage

    Studies in Public Representation

    by Jeffrey Hill, Jean Williams, Jed Smith, John K. Walton, Kevin Moore, Matthew Taylor, Max Dunbar, Mike McGuinness, Neil Skinner0, Ray Physick1, Richard Holt2, Santiago De Pablo3, Stephen Done4, Tim O'Sullivan5, Wray Vamplew6, Jason Wood8, Andrea Titterington9, Anthony Bateman0, Daphné Bolz1, David Storey2, Honor Godfrey3 ...
    Sport is an integral part of British culture and an important aspect of modern life. Although its importance has been recognised by academic historians, sport has yet to be fully appreciated in the growing and related fields of heritage and museum studies. Sport and heritage have operated as seemingly separate spheres, yet together they can convey powerful messages; convergence between them is ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • When Sport Meets Business

    Capabilities, Challenges, Critiques

    Edited by Ulrik Wagner, Klaus Nielsen, Rasmus K. Storm ...
    Written by European professors and focusing on the specificities of European sport, When Sport Meets Business analyses the growing commercialisation of professional sport in recent years and explains how it has developed into a major global industry.Structured into four sections, the book covers the key issues in the Business of professional sport:The New Sport Environment – Analysing the ... Read more

    $78.99 USD

  • The English Premier League

    A Socio-Cultural Analysis

    Edited by Richard Elliott ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Football
    The English Premier League (EPL) is one of the world’s most valuable and high-profile sports leagues, with millions of fans around the globe. The 2016/17 season marked the 25th anniversary of the EPL, providing a unique opportunity to reflect on how it has contributed, both positively and negatively, to key developments in football – and in sport and culture more broadly – at local, national and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD