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      • Trusted Partner
        Localizing global sport for development
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2017

        Localizing global sport for development

        by Iain Lindsey, Tess Kay, Ruth Jeanes, Davies Banda, John Horne

        This jointly authored book extends understanding of the use of sport to address global development agendas by offering an important departure from prevailing theoretical and methodological approaches in the field. Drawing on nearly a decade of wide-ranging multidisciplinary research undertaken with young people and adults living and working in urban communities in Zambia, the book presents a localised account that locates sport for development in historical, political, economic and social context. A key feature of the book is its detailed examination of the lives, experiences and responses of young people involved in sport for development activities, drawn from their own accounts. The book's unique approach and content will be highly relevant to academic researchers and post-graduate students studying sport and development in across many different contexts.

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        Mega-events and social change
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2017

        Mega-events and social change

        Spectacle, legacy and public culture

        by Maurice Roche, John Horne

        The spectacle of major cultural and sporting events can preoccupy modern societies. This book is concerned with contemporary mega-events, like the Olympics and Expos. Using a sociological perspective Roche argues that mega-events reflect the major social changes which now influence our societies, particularly in the West, and that these amount to a new 'second phase' of the modernization process. Changes are particularly visible in the media, urban and global locational aspects of mega-events. Thus he suggests that contemporary mega-events, both in their achievements and their vulnerabilities, reflect, in the media sphere, the rise of the internet; in the urban sphere, de-industrialisation and the growing ecological crisis; and in the global sphere, the relative decline of the West and the rise of China and other 'emerging' countries.

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        Mega-events and social change
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2017

        Mega-events and social change

        Spectacle, legacy and public culture

        by Maurice Roche, John Horne

        The spectacle of major cultural and sporting events can preoccupy modern societies. This book is concerned with contemporary mega-events, like the Olympics and Expos. Using a sociological perspective Roche argues that mega-events reflect the major social changes which now influence our societies, particularly in the West, and that these amount to a new 'second phase' of the modernization process. Changes are particularly visible in the media, urban and global locational aspects of mega-events. Thus he suggests that contemporary mega-events, both in their achievements and their vulnerabilities, reflect, in the media sphere, the rise of the internet; in the urban sphere, de-industrialisation and the growing ecological crisis; and in the global sphere, the relative decline of the West and the rise of China and other 'emerging' countries.

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        Mega-events and social change
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2017

        Mega-events and social change

        Spectacle, legacy and public culture

        by Maurice Roche, John Horne

        The spectacle of major cultural and sporting events can preoccupy modern societies. This book is concerned with contemporary mega-events, like the Olympics and Expos. Using a sociological perspective Roche argues that mega-events reflect the major social changes which now influence our societies, particularly in the West, and that these amount to a new 'second phase' of the modernization process. Changes are particularly visible in the media, urban and global locational aspects of mega-events. Thus he suggests that contemporary mega-events, both in their achievements and their vulnerabilities, reflect, in the media sphere, the rise of the internet; in the urban sphere, de-industrialisation and the growing ecological crisis; and in the global sphere, the relative decline of the West and the rise of China and other 'emerging' countries.

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        Localizing global sport for development
        Sociology: sport & leisure
        February 2017

        Localizing global sport for development

        by Iain Lindsey. Series edited by John Horne

        This jointly authored book extends understanding of the use of sport to address global development agendas by offering an important departure from prevailing theoretical and methodological approaches in the field. Drawing on nearly a decade of wide-ranging multidisciplinary research undertaken with young people and adults living and working in urban communities in Zambia, the book presents a localised account that locates sport for development in historical, political, economic and social context. A key feature of the book is its detailed examination of the lives, experiences and responses of young people involved in sport for development activities, drawn from their own accounts. The book's unique approach and content will be highly relevant to academic researchers and post-graduate students studying sport and development in across many different contexts.

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        Sport in the Black Atlantic
        Sociology
        January 2017

        Sport in the Black Atlantic

        Cricket, Canada and the Caribbean diaspora

        by Janelle Joseph. Series edited by John Horne

        This book outlines the ways sport helps to create transnational social fields that interconnect migrants dispersed across a region known as the Black Atlantic: England, North America and the Caribbean. Many Caribbean men's stories about their experiences migrating to Canada, settling in Toronto, finding jobs and travelling involved some contact with a cricket and social club. This book offers a unique contribution to black diaspora studies through showing sport as a means of allaying the pain of ageing in the diaspora, creating transnational social networks and marking ethnic boundaries on a local scale. The book also brings black diaspora analysis to sport research, and through a close look at what goes on before, during and after cricket matches provides insights into the dis-unities, contradictions and complexities of Afro-diasporic identity in multicultural Canada. It will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology, sport studies and black diaspora studies.

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        A cultural history of chess-players
        Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        September 2017

        A cultural history of chess-players

        Minds, machines, and monsters

        by John Sharples

        This inquiry concerns the cultural history of the chess-player. It takes as its premise the idea that the chess-player has become a fragmented collection of images, underpinned by challenges to, and confirmations of, chess's status as an intellectually-superior and socially-useful game, particularly since the medieval period. Yet, the chess-player is an understudied figure. No previous work has shone a light on the chess-player itself. Increasingly, chess-histories have retreated into tidy consensus. This work aspires to a novel reading of the figure as both a flickering beacon of reason and a sign of monstrosity. To this end, this book, utilising a wide range of sources, including newspapers, periodicals, detective novels, science-fiction, and comic-books, is underpinned by the idea that the chess-player is a pluralistic subject used to articulate a number of anxieties pertaining to themes of mind, machine, and monster.

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        A cultural history of chess-players
        Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        September 2017

        A cultural history of chess-players

        Minds, machines, and monsters

        by John Sharples

        This inquiry concerns the cultural history of the chess-player. It takes as its premise the idea that the chess-player has become a fragmented collection of images, underpinned by challenges to, and confirmations of, chess's status as an intellectually-superior and socially-useful game, particularly since the medieval period. Yet, the chess-player is an understudied figure. No previous work has shone a light on the chess-player itself. Increasingly, chess-histories have retreated into tidy consensus. This work aspires to a novel reading of the figure as both a flickering beacon of reason and a sign of monstrosity. To this end, this book, utilising a wide range of sources, including newspapers, periodicals, detective novels, science-fiction, and comic-books, is underpinned by the idea that the chess-player is a pluralistic subject used to articulate a number of anxieties pertaining to themes of mind, machine, and monster.

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        A cultural history of chess-players
        Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        September 2017

        A cultural history of chess-players

        Minds, machines, and monsters

        by John Sharples

        This inquiry concerns the cultural history of the chess-player. It takes as its premise the idea that the chess-player has become a fragmented collection of images, underpinned by challenges to, and confirmations of, chess's status as an intellectually-superior and socially-useful game, particularly since the medieval period. Yet, the chess-player is an understudied figure. No previous work has shone a light on the chess-player itself. Increasingly, chess-histories have retreated into tidy consensus. This work aspires to a novel reading of the figure as both a flickering beacon of reason and a sign of monstrosity. To this end, this book, utilising a wide range of sources, including newspapers, periodicals, detective novels, science-fiction, and comic-books, is underpinned by the idea that the chess-player is a pluralistic subject used to articulate a number of anxieties pertaining to themes of mind, machine, and monster.

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        Going to the dogs
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2019

        Going to the dogs

        A history of greyhound racing in Britain 1926-2017

        by Keith Laybourn

        Introduction 1. The rise of greyhound racing in Britain 1926-45: the politics of discrimination 2. Discrimination and decline: greyhound racing in Britain 1945 to the 1960s 3. '.animated roulette boards.': financing, operating and managing the greyhound tracks for racing the dogs c 1926-61 4. Dog breeding, dog owning and dog training: dividing the classes 5. An Ascot for the common man 6. Policing the tracks, detecting malpractice, and dealing with the racketeers and 'shady' individuals 1926-c1961 7. The decline of greyhound racing in Britain 1961-2017 Conclusion Index

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        Time, work and leisure
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2016

        Time, work and leisure

        Life changes in England since 1700

        by Hugh Cunningham, Jeffrey Richards

        This book traces the history of the relationship between work and leisure, from the 'leisure preference' of male workers in the eighteenth century, through the increase in working hours in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to their progressive decline from 1830 to 1970. It examines how trade union action was critical in achieving the decline; how class structured the experience of leisure; how male identity was shaped by both work and leisure; how, in a society that placed high value on work, a 'leisured class' was nevertheless at the apex of political and social power - until it became thought of as 'the idle rich'. Coinciding with the decline in working hours, two further tranches of time were marked out as properly without work: childhood and retirement. Accessible, wide-ranging and occasionally polemical, this book provides the first history of how we have imagined and used time.

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        Localizing global sport for development
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2017

        Localizing global sport for development

        by Iain Lindsey, Tess Kay, Ruth Jeanes, Davies Banda, John Horne

        This jointly authored book extends understanding of the use of sport to address global development agendas by offering an important departure from prevailing theoretical and methodological approaches in the field. Drawing on nearly a decade of wide-ranging multidisciplinary research undertaken with young people and adults living and working in urban communities in Zambia, the book presents a localised account that locates sport for development in historical, political, economic and social context. A key feature of the book is its detailed examination of the lives, experiences and responses of young people involved in sport for development activities, drawn from their own accounts. The book's unique approach and content will be highly relevant to academic researchers and post-graduate students studying sport and development in across many different contexts.

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        The emergence of footballing cultures
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2019

        The emergence of footballing cultures

        Manchester, 1840-1919

        by Gary James

        This study of Manchester football, by leading football historian Gary James, considers the sport's emergence, development and establishment through to its position as the city's leading team sport. The period from 1840 to 1919 saw football in Manchester develop from an inconsequential, occasionally outlawed activity, into a major business with a variety of popular football clubs and supporting industry. This book makes a distinct and original contribution to the historiography of sport. It is the first academic study into the development of association football in Manchester, and is directly linked to the current state of knowledge and debates within sports history on football's origins. It adds regional focus to inform the wider debate, contextualising the growth of the sport in the city and identifies communities who propagated and developed football. Robust research should ensure that this becomes the benchmark study of regional football.

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        The emergence of footballing cultures
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2019

        The emergence of footballing cultures

        Manchester, 1840-1919

        by Gary James

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        The emergence of footballing cultures
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2019

        The emergence of footballing cultures

        Manchester, 1840-1919

        by Gary James

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        Going to the dogs
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2019

        Going to the dogs

        A history of greyhound racing in Britain 1926-2017

        by Keith Laybourn

        Greyhound racing emerged rapidly in Britain in 1926 but in its early years was subject to rabid institutional middle-class opposition largely because of the legal gambling opportunities it offered to the working class. Though condemned as a dissipate and impoverishing activity, it was, in fact, a significant leisure opportunity for the working class, which cost little for the minority of bettors involved in what was clearly little more than a 'bit of the flutter' , This book is the first national study of greyhound racing in Britain from its beginnings, to its heyday in the 1930s and 1940s, and up its long slow decline of the late twentieth century. Much of the study will be defined by the dominating issue of working-class gambling and the bitter opposition to both it and greyhound racing, although the attractions of this 'American Night Out' will also be examined.

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        Going to the dogs
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2019

        Going to the dogs

        A history of greyhound racing in Britain 1926-2017

        by Keith Laybourn

        Introduction 1. The rise of greyhound racing in Britain 1926-45: the politics of discrimination 2. Discrimination and decline: greyhound racing in Britain 1945 to the 1960s 3. '.animated roulette boards.': financing, operating and managing the greyhound tracks for racing the dogs c 1926-61 4. Dog breeding, dog owning and dog training: dividing the classes 5. An Ascot for the common man 6. Policing the tracks, detecting malpractice, and dealing with the racketeers and 'shady' individuals 1926-c1961 7. The decline of greyhound racing in Britain 1961-2017 Conclusion Index

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      • Trusted Partner
        Mega-events and social change
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2019

        Mega-events and social change

        Spectacle, legacy and public culture

        by Maurice Roche, John Horne

        The spectacle of major cultural and sporting events can preoccupy modern societies. This book is concerned with contemporary mega-events, like the Olympics and Expos. Using a sociological perspective Roche argues that mega-events reflect the major social changes which now influence our societies, particularly in the West, and that these amount to a new 'second phase' of the modernization process. Changes are particularly visible in the media, urban and global locational aspects of mega-events. Thus he suggests that contemporary mega-events, both in their achievements and their vulnerabilities, reflect, in the media sphere, the rise of the internet; in the urban sphere, de-industrialisation and the growing ecological crisis; and in the global sphere, the relative decline of the West and the rise of China and other 'emerging' countries.

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