Sport and the British
Sport and the British

Author: Richard Holt

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780192852298

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This lively and deeply researched history - the first of its kind - goes beyond the great names and moments to explain how British sport has changed since 1800, and what it has meant to ordinary people. It shows how the way we play reflects not just our lives as citizens of a predominantlyurban and industrial world, but what is especially distinctive about British sport. Innovators in abandoning traditional, often brutal sports, and in establishing a code of `fair play', the British were also pioneers in popular sports and in the promotion of organized spectator events.Modern media coverage of sport, gambling, violence and attitudes towards it, nationalism, and the role of sport in sustaining male identity are also explored, and the book is rich in illuminating and entertaining anecdotes, which it combines with a serious historical understanding of a fascinatingsubject.

'Race', Sport, and British Society
'Race', Sport, and British Society

Author: Ben Carrington

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780415246293

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Arguing that racism is evident throughout British sport, this book breaks new ground in showing how the discourses of race and nation continue to pervade our sporting life.

Sport, Time and Society (RLE Sports Studies)
Sport, Time and Society (RLE Sports Studies)

Author: Dennis Brailsford

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-24

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1317682211

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This volume traces the rise and transformation of organized sport and its impact on social patterns and gender roles. Stressing the essential continuity of the sporting experience, the author shows the changing tempo of sport through the ages and explores the broader effects of the time element on the nature and style of sporting activities. The book covers current issues such as soccer hooliganism , government intervention in sport, and the influence of television on sport.

A Corner of a Foreign Field
A Corner of a Foreign Field

Author: Ramachandra Guha

Publisher: Random House India

Published: 2016-11-24

Total Pages: 653

ISBN-13: 9351186938

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A Corner of a Foreign Field seamlessly interweaves biography with history, the lives of famous or forgotten cricketers with wider processes of social change. C. K. Nayudu and Sachin Tendulkar naturally figure in this book but so, too, in unexpected ways, do B. R. Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi, and M. A. Jinnah. The Indian careers of those great British cricketers, Lord Harris and D. R. Jardine, provide a window into the operations of Empire. The remarkable life of India’s first great slow bowler, Palwankar Baloo, provides an arresting new perspective on the struggle against caste discrimination. Later chapters explore the competition between Hindu and Muslim cricketers in colonial India and the destructive passions now provoked when India plays Pakistan. For this new edition, Ramachandra Guha has added a fresh introduction as well as a long new chapter, bringing the story up to date to cover, among other things, the advent of the Indian Premier League and the Indian team’s victory in the World Cup of 2011, these linked to social and economic transformations in contemporary India. A pioneering work, essential for anyone interested in either of those vast themes, cricket and India, A Corner of a Foreign Field is also a beautifully written meditation on the ramifications of sport in society at large.

Sport and Leisure in the Irish and British Country House
Sport and Leisure in the Irish and British Country House

Author: Terence A. M. Dooley

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781846828065

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Sir Shane Leslie once wrote that 'Country life was entirely organized to give nobility and gentry and demi-gentry a good time.'0Throughout Ireland and Britain the country house was a centre of hospitality, entertainment and leisure, with the hosting of house parties, soirees and balls. Pastimes included photography, painting, astronomy and taxidermy. Outdoors the parkland was used for a variety of sporting activities including archery, cricket, croquet and shooting, as well as local sports events, and beyond the demesne activities included hunting, horse racing and yachting. In Ireland demesne lands were developed as golf courses and estates offered land to the nationalist-dominated Gaelic Athletic Association for football and hurling.0This volume provides fresh and original insights into how leisure and sport underpinned the social hierarchy of country houses and their local communities in Ireland and Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Can We Have Our Balls Back, Please?
Can We Have Our Balls Back, Please?

Author: Julian Norridge

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 571

ISBN-13: 0141036168

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Americans 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 of folk football with hundreds of players on each side - to the original bowls - a thin excuse for drunkenness and gambling - games grew into sports here in Great Britain. And in Can We Have Our Balls Back, Please? Julian Norridge tells their stories with wit and good humour. Including all the many sports we Brits have to be proud of - boxing, horse racing, cricket, football, rugby, hockey, lawn tennis (nearly called 'sphairistike') and more - and even those few that got away, this is everything you need to know about the very British love of sports and all the great games it's produced. Because, even if we rarely win them, it's good to know we invented them.

Land of Sport and Glory
Land of Sport and Glory

Author: Derek Birley

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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History of the clashes between traditional sporting philosophies and the realities of modern life.

Sport and the British World, 1900-1930
Sport and the British World, 1900-1930

Author: E. Nielsen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-06-12

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1137398515

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This book provides a lively study of the role that Australians and New Zealanders played in defining the British sporting concept of amateurism. In doing so, they contributed to understandings of wider British identity across the sporting world.

British Sport
British Sport

Author: Richard William Cox

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780714652504

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Volume three of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.