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Goal! covers the history of the beautiful game from its origins in
English public schools in the early 19th century to its current
role as a crucial element of a globalized entertainment industry.
The authors explain how football transformed from a sport at elite
boarding schools in England to become a pastime popular with the
working classes, enabling factories such as the Thames Iron Works
and the Woolwich Arsenal to give birth to the teams that would
become the Premier League mainstays known as West Ham United and
Arsenal. They also explore how the age of amateur soccer ended and,
with the advent of professionalism, how football became a sport
dominated by big clubs with big money and with an international
audience. There are intense rivalries in soccer, such as that in
Glasgow, Scotland, between (Catholic) Celtic and (Protestant)
Rangers, and the authors examine closely the social causes that
make for such passionate fans. The book also discusses the use of
soccer for political purposes, such as in Hitler's Germany and
Franco's Spain. And - given the long-standing association of soccer
as a man's sport and the rise of women's soccer, especially in the
United States - the authors look at the gendered history of the
world's most popular sport. This book, which will appeal to all
connoisseurs of soccer, provides a lens through which to view the
social and cultural history of modern Europe. The book is published
by The Catholic University of America Press.
The study is a result of a collaborative research project
addressing "The Implementation of the New Insolvency Regulation -
Improving Cooperation and Mutual Trust". The project was undertaken
by the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law, the
University of Vienna and the University of Milan, and co-funded by
the European Union as part of the Commission's Action Grants 2013
for Civil Justice. The focus of the study concerns specific issues
of cross-border insolvencies under the recast of the Insolvency
Regulation which already has been prepared by a large part of the
contributing authors in the Heidelberg-Vienna-Luxembourg Report.
The study is comprised of three major topics: 1.The Regulation's
extended scope of application, including pre-insolvency and hybrid
proceedings, the relationship between Article 1(1) of the
Regulation and its Annex A, as well as the interplay between the
Insolvency Regulation and the Brussels Ibis Regulation; 2.the
cooperation between main and secondary insolvency proceedings, the
new instruments, such as "synthetic proceedings", destined to avoid
or postpone the opening of secondary proceedings, further the
cooperation between administrators and courts of different
proceedings as well as protocols to enhance cooperation;
3.insolvencies of groups of companies, with a particular focus on
jurisdiction, COMI-migration, "group coordination proceedings" and
other instruments of coordination.
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