"This superbly written volume will appeal to sports and physical education students; researchers in foreign policy, gender studies, history, politics, sociology

"This superbly written volume will appeal to sports and physical education students; researchers in foreign policy, gender studies, history, politics, sociology

A wide ranging overview of the history of modern sports including material on sports organizations, the commercialisation of sports and the use of performance-e

This multivolume set is much more than a collection of essays on sports and sporting cultures from around the world: it also details how and why sports are play

Spanning the wide world of sports, this volume is packed with every conceivable fact that anyone would possibly want to know about nearly 300 sports, including