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Rugby's Great Split - Class, Culture and the Origins of Rugby League Football (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Rugby's Great Split - Class, Culture and the Origins of Rugby League Football (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Since it's first publication, Rugby's Great Split has established
itself as a classic in the field of sport history. Drawing on an
unprecedented range of sources, this deeply researched and highly
readable book traces the social, cultural and economic divisions
that led, in 1895, to schism in the game of rugby and the creation
of rugby league, the sport of England's northern working class.
Tony Collins' analysis challenges many of the conventional
assumptions about this key event in rugby history - about class
conflict, amateurism in sport, the North-South divide, violence on
the pitch, the development of mass spectator sport and the rise of
football. This new edition is expanded to cover parallel events in
Australia and New Zealand, and to address the key question of rugby
league's failure to establish itself in Wales. Rugby's Great Split
is a benchmark text in the history of rugby, and an absorbing case
study of wider issues - issues of class, gender, regional and
national identity, and the impact of the commercialization and
recent professionalization of rugby league. This insightful text is
for anyone interested in Britain's social history or in the
emergence of modern sport, it is vital reading.
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