• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
World of Sport: Transnational and Connected Histories

World of Sport: Transnational and Connected Histories

Hardcover

FictionGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1032408626
ISBN13: 9781032408620
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 10 2024
Pages: 268
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

World of Sport examines the development of modern sport from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1960s in the light of transnational approaches to history.

Critically probing existing studies and offering new insights, this volume demonstrates that while sport was a national and international phenomenon, it was invariably constructed transnationally. Taking in topics ranging from the dissemination of football codes to transpacific surfing cultures, and the touring lives of baseball and hockey players to the contact zones of international competition, it emphasises the importance of transnational perspectives in the way people around the globe experience sport. Like other forms of popular culture, sport cannot be properly understood without reference to the cross-national connections that helped to disseminate rules and regulations, circulated styles of play and performance, and drove forward regional and international competition.

1 different editions

Also available

Also from

Taylor, Matthew

Also in

Fiction