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Sport celebrates basic human values of freedom, justice and courage. This collection of essays probes beneath those assumptions in order to illuminate how sport

When this book was first published the study of sport had been largely neglected by sociologists. The contributions to this volume bring the sports field, the l

The nineteenth century was a golden age in British sports. Not only were sports immensely popular, but they began to assume the forms and qualities that still c

When originally published in 1991 this was the first book to tackle the UK policy process of sport and to provide a political science analysis of some of the ke

This systematic historical and sociological study of the phenomenon of football hooliganism examines the history of crowd disorderliness at association football