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  • Soccer's Missing Men

    Schoolteachers and the Spread of Association Football

    de J.A. Mangan, Colm Hickey ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    Now unknown or forgotten, influential schoolmasters took the game of association football to many parts of England. They had several roles: they brought the game to individual schools, they established regional and national leagues and associations, and they founded professional football clubs. They also exported the game around the world, working as moral missionaries, passionate players and ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

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  • Liberty's Dawn

    A People's History of the Industrial Revolution

    de Emma Griffin ...
    "Emma Griffin gives a new and powerful voice to the men and women whose blood and sweat greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution" (Tim Hitchcock, author of Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London).This "provocative study" looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • A Game for Hooligans

    The History of Rugby Union

    de Huw Richards ...
    Rugby union has undergone immense change in the past two decades - introducing a World Cup, accepting professionalism and creating a global market in players - yet no authoritative English-language general history of the game has been published in that time. Until now.A Game for Hooligans brings the game's colourful story up to date to include the 2007 World Cup. It covers all of the great matches ... Leer más

    $13.69 USD

  • More Than A Game

    The Story of Cricket's Early Years

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $2.49 USD

  • Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain

    A Social and Cultural History

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Arlott, Swanton and the Soul of English Cricket

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • A Deeper Shade of Red

    de Mark Nevin ...
    Manchester United and Liverpool were born to be enemies.Both emerged in the cultural battlefield of the north-west of England in the late nineteenth century. One a team of railway workers, the other the plaything of a wealthy freemason, the two clubs emerged blinking into a period where the two great civic centres of the north-west were at each others throats over the construction of the ... Leer más

    $1.49 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • How International Football Started - Scotland v England 1872

    de Andy Mitchell ...
    England v Scotland is the world football's oldest rivalry, and this fascinating book tells the story of how it all began.Sports historian Andy Mitchell, former head of communications at the Scottish FA, has researched the events that led to the creation of a global phenomenon.He brings to life the players who set the ball rolling in first international in Glasgow on 30 November 1872 and describes ... Leer más

    $3.50 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Terrace Heroes

    The Life and Times of the 1930s Professional Footballer

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Can We Have Our Balls Back, Please?

    How the British Invented Sport

    de Julian Norridge ...
    The acclaimed Sunday Times Sports Book of the YearAmericans may like to think they invented baseball (even if Jane Austen wrote about it decades earlier). And the French might be proud of founding the modern Olympics (when, in fact, a Shropshire doctor beat them to it by forty years).But it was the British that gave sport to the world.From the beginnings of 'the beautiful game' - raucous matches ... Leer más

    $11.39 USD

  • The GAA v Douglas Hyde

    de Cormac Moore ...
    On 13 November 1938, just months after his inauguration, President Douglas Hyde attended a soccer match between Ireland and Poland. In a passionate reaction, the GAA declared that by attending a 'foreign game', he had broken Rule 27 – the Ban – and they removed him as patron. One of the most controversial incidents in recent GAA history, it strained relations between the GAA and Éamon de Valera's ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The First Black Footballer

    Arthur Wharton 1865-1930: An Absence of Memory

    de Phil Vasili ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    Arthur Wharton was the world's first black professional footballer, and the first African to play professional cricket in Yorkshire and Lancashire leagues. Those promoting Empire as an expression of white supremacy found him a supreme irritation, and he eventually died in poverty. ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD