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Sport in Capitalist Society - A Short History (Hardcover, New)
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Sport in Capitalist Society - A Short History (Hardcover, New)
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Why are the Olympic Games the driving force behind a clampdown on
civil liberties? What makes sport an unwavering ally of nationalism
and militarism? Is sport the new opiate of the masses? These and
many other questions are answered in this new radical history of
sport by leading historian of sport and society, Professor Tony
Collins. Tracing the history of modern sport from its origins in
the burgeoning capitalist economy of mid-eighteenth century England
to the globalised corporate sport of today, the book argues that,
far from the purity of sport being 'corrupted' by capitalism,
modern sport is as much a product of capitalism as the factory, the
stock exchange and the unemployment line. Based on original
sources, the book explains how sport has been shaped and moulded by
the major political and economic events of the past two centuries,
such as the French Revolution, the rise of modern nationalism and
imperialism, the Russian Revolution, the Cold War and the
imposition of the neo-liberal agenda in the last decades of the
twentieth century. It highlights the symbiotic relationship between
the media and sport, from the simultaneous emergence of print
capitalism and modern sport in Georgian England to the rise of
Murdoch's global satellite television empire in the twenty-first
century, and for the first time it explores the alternative,
revolutionary models of sport in the early twentieth century. Sport
in a Capitalist Society is the first sustained attempt to explain
the emergence of modern sport around the world as an integral part
of the globalisation of capitalism. It is essential reading for
anybody with an interest in the history or sociology of sport, or
the social and cultural history of the modern world.
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