Sport in Britain 1945-2000

Richard Holt, Tony Mason (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

228 Seiten

2000
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-0-631-17153-9 (ISBN)

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An account of the changing nature of sport in Britain since the end of World War II. The book examines: the changing patterns of participation; commercialization; the role of the media in promoting sport and its stars; and Britain's role in international sport and its attendant political problems.

Richard Holt is the author of several books and articles on the history of sport including Sport and Society in Modern France (1981) and Sport and the British (1989). He also edited Sport and the Working Class in Modern Britain (1991). Tony Mason is the author of numerous works on modern sports including Association Football and English Society (1980) and Passion of the People: football in South America (1995). He also edited Sport in Britain: a social history (1989). Richard Holt and Tony Mason are members of the International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University, Leicester.

Preface. 1. Playing and Watching.

2. Reconstruction, 1945-1952.

3. Amateurism.

4. The Professionals.

5. Media and Celebrity.

6. Civic and National Identity.

7. Governments and Sport.

Conclusion.

Bibliography.

Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.12.2000
Reihe/Serie	Making Contemporary Britain
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 236 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-631-17153-3 / 0631171533
ISBN-13	978-0-631-17153-9 / 9780631171539
Zustand	Neuware