Sport in Capitalist Society A Short History

Name: Sport in Capitalist Society A Short History
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ISBN: 9780415813563

ISBN-10: 0415813565

ISBN-13: 9780415813563

Edition: 2013

Authors: Tony Collins

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Why are the Olympic Games the driving force behind a clampdown on civil liberties? What makes sport an unwavering ally of nationalism and militarism? Is sport the new opiate of the masses?These and many other questions are answered in this new radical history of sport by leading historian of sport and society, Professor Tony Collins.Tracing the history of modern sport from its origins in the burgeoning capitalist economy of mid-eighteenth century England to the globalised corporate sport of today, the book argues that, far from the purity of sport being ‘corrupted’ by capitalism, modern sport is as much a product of capitalism as the factory, the stock exchange and the unemployment line.…

Book details

List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 4/3/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Introduction



Capitalism and the birth of modern sport



Class conflict and the decline of traditional games



Sport, nationalism and the French Revolution



The middle-class invention of amateurism



Women and the masculine kingdom of sport



The Victorian sporting industrial revolution



Sport and the age of empire



Unfair play: the racial politics of sport



Soccer's rise to globalism



The second revolution: sport between the world wars



Revolutionary sport



Sex, drugs and sport in the Cold War



Taking sides in the 1960s



The revolution is being televised



Winners and losers: sport in the New World Order


Conclusion: what future for sport?


Notes


Bibliography


Index