Rugby Renegade

Author : Tony Collins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134221455

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Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain by Tony Collins Pdf

Called ‘the greatest game of all’ by its supporters but often overlooked by the cultural mainstream, no sport is more identified with England’s northern working class than rugby league. This book traces the story of the sport from the Northern Union of the 1900s to the formation of the Super League in the 1990s, through war, depression, boom and deindustrialisation, into a new economic and social age. Using a range of previously unexplored archival sources, this extremely readable and deeply researched book considers the impact of two world wars, the significance of the game’s expansion to Australasia and the momentous decision to take rugby league to Wembley. It investigates the history of rugby union’s long-running war against league, and the sport’s troubled relationship with the national media. Most importantly, this book sheds new light on issues of social class and working-class masculinity, regional identity and the profound impact of the decline of Britain’s traditional industries. For all those interested in the history of sport and working-class culture, this is essential reading.

Author : Gus Risman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-27
Category : Rugby League football players
ISBN : 0956007503

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Rugby Renegade by Gus Risman Pdf

Author : David Asa Schwartz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9798216118800

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Modern Sports around the World by David Asa Schwartz Pdf

Modern Sports around the World focuses on the history, geography, sociology, economics, and technological advancements of 50 sports played from India to Ireland. Sports have become an international spectacle that influences nations' foreign policy, world economies, and regional morale. Hundreds of billions of dollars are at stake as governments and multinational corporations rush to make sure they have a place at the table. And yet, sports come from humble beginnings. We are fascinated by who can run the fastest, lift the most weight, jump the highest, swim the farthest, and act with the most precision. The history of sports is the history of the world. Modern Sports around the World examines 50 of the world's most popular sports. Each chapter features one sport and details that sport's origins, global migration, economic forces, media influences, political environment, pop-culture inspirations, scandalous moments, and key individuals. Sports history is a tapestry of sociological variables; Modern Sports around the World weaves them together to create a unique history book that explains not only where humanity has been, but where it might be going.

Author : Tony Collins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781408843727

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The Oval World by Tony Collins Pdf

Rugby has always been a sport with as much drama off the field as on it. For every thrilling last-minute Jonny Wilkinson drop-goal to win the world cup or Jonah Lomu rampage down the touchline for a try, there has been a split, a feud or a controversy. The Oval World is the first full-length history of rugby on a world scale – from its origins in the village-based football games of medieval times up to the globalised sport of the twenty-first century,now played in well over 100 countries. It tells the story of how a game played in an obscure English public school became the winter sport of the British Empire, spread to France, Argentina, Japan and the rest of the world and commanded a global television audience of over four billion for the last world cup final. And how American football – and other games such as Australian, Canadian and Gaelic football – emerged from rugby and highlight just how much the modern gridiron game owes to its English cousin. Featuring the great moments in the game's history and its great names – such as Jonah Lomu, David Duckham, Serge Blanco, Billy Boston and David Campese alongside Rupert Brooke, King George V, Boris Karloff, Charles de Gaulle and Nelson Mandela – The Oval World investigates just what it is about rugby that enables it to survive and thrive in countries with very different traditions and cultures. This is the the definitive world history of a truly global rugby.

Author : Keith Gregson
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780752477626

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Sporting Ancestors by Keith Gregson Pdf

Sport, in its many forms, is an important part of British heritage and our family histories are littered with amateur and professional sporting references. As people moved from country to town, sport became fashionable and organised, and our ancestors left us with records of their sporting deeds. Newspaper reports, minute books, club histories, team photographs and even cartoons are all available to the family historian. Discover which sports were played when, where and why. Read example case studies, find out how to begin your own research and learn what resources are available to help you progress. From Victorian prizefighters to Edwardian ladies’ archery, from inter-war football teams to the shin-kicking contests of the Cotswold Olimpicks – Sporting Ancestors is the essential guide for those wanting to explore what part sport has played in their national and family history.

Author : Richard Cox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781135287702

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British Sport - a Bibliography to 2000 by Richard Cox Pdf

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.

Author : Richard William Cox
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Athletes
ISBN : 0714652520

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British Sport: Biographical studies of British sportsmen, sportswomen, and animals by Richard William Cox Pdf

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.

Author : Megh R. Goyal,Arijit Nath,Hafiz Ansar Rasul Suleria
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000090031

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Plant-Based Functional Foods and Phytochemicals by Megh R. Goyal,Arijit Nath,Hafiz Ansar Rasul Suleria Pdf

Plant-Based Functional Foods and Phytochemicals: From Traditional Knowledge to Present Innovation covers the importance of the therapeutic health benefits of phytochemicals derived from plants. It discusses the isolation of potential bioactive molecules from plant sources along with their value to human health. It focuses on physical characteristics, uniqueness, uses, distribution, traditional and nutritional importance, bioactivities, and future trends of different plant-based foods and food products. Functional foods, beyond providing basic nutrition, may offer a potentially positive effect on health and cures for various disease conditions, such as metabolic disorders (including diabetes), cancer, and chronic inflammatory reactions. The volume looks at these natural products and their bioactive compounds that are increasingly utilized in preventive and therapeutic medications and in the production of pharmaceutical supplements and as food additives to increase functionality. It also describes the concept of extraction of bioactive molecules from plant sources, both conventional and modern extraction techniques, available sources, biochemistry, structural composition, and potential biological activities.

Author : John Bale,Joseph Maguire
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781135195939

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The Global Sports Arena by John Bale,Joseph Maguire Pdf

Athletes are on the move. In some sports this involves labour, movement from one country to another within or between continents. In other sports, athletes assume an almost nomadic migratory lifestyle, constantly on the move from one sport festival to another. In addition, it appears that sport migration is gaining momentum and that it is closely interwoven with the broader process of global sport development taking place in the late twentieth century.

Author : Richard William Cox
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Sports
ISBN : 0719025923

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Sport in Britain by Richard William Cox Pdf

Author : Dai Smith,Gareth Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : UOM:39015005376549

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Fields of Praise by Dai Smith,Gareth Williams Pdf

"Rugby football has become identified with modern Wales. This book shows how and why this came about - how a game devised by and for English public school boys became the passion of an industrial, Welsh working class, why the game of rugby channelled a burning urge for dramatic, communal expression. The authors ... have written a history that combines an account of rugby play and administration with analysis of the vibrant social history of Wales."--Blurb.

Author : Henry Colin Gray Matthew,Brian Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : British
ISBN : UOM:39015059134661

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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Rippon-Rowe by Henry Colin Gray Matthew,Brian Harrison Pdf

55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.

Author : Library Board of Western Australia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
ISBN : UIUC:30112119678586

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Catalogue of Books Arranged by Subjects by Library Board of Western Australia Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : MINN:319510019799706

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The Bookseller by Anonim Pdf

Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082983019

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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971 by New York Public Library. Research Libraries Pdf