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Routledge - How Football Began: A Global History of Football

Name: Routledge - How Football Began: A Global History of Football
Brand: Routledge
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Explore the origins of the world's most popular sports in How Football Began. This ambitious history examines the rapid transformation of football between 1850 and 1910. During these sixty years, the sport moved from a marginal, unorganised activity to become the primary winter entertainment for millions of people globally. This book tracks the development of various football codes, including soccer, rugby league, rugby union, American, Australian, Canadian, and Gaelic football. It looks at how these different versions emerged as part of the nineteenth-century commercialised leisure industry. Readers will learn how the growth of football was connected to the second industrial revolution and the rise of mass media. This work provides a deep look at the historical forces that shaped the sports we recognize today. It is an essential read for anyone interested in the global history of sports and how social changes influence the way the world plays.

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Traces the global evolution of football codes from 1850 to 1910.

Covers diverse sports including soccer, rugby union, rugby league, and American football.

Examines the connection between football and the nineteenth-century commercialised leisure industry.

Analyzes how the second industrial revolution influenced the growth of organized sports.

Explores the impact of the rise of mass media on football's global popularity.

Provides a detailed history of how various regional football codes were born.

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Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1138038741
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe > Great Britain
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 03 August 2018
Listed Since: 07 December 2017

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