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Routledge - How Football Began: A Global History of Football

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Discover the origins of the world's most popular sports in this ambitious history by Routledge. This book examines the rapid transformation of football from a marginal, unorganized activity into the dominant winter entertainment for millions of people worldwide. Spanning the sixty years between 1850 and 1910, the text tracks how different codes emerged and evolved. Readers will learn how soccer, rugby league, rugby union, American, Australian, Canadian, and Gaelic football developed as part of the nineteenth-century commercialized leisure industry. The narrative explores the connection between these sporting codes and the era of the second industrial revolution and the rise of mass media. It is an essential read for anyone interested in how social and industrial changes shaped the way the world plays.

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Comprehensive history covering the sixty-year period between 1850 and 1910 when football grew into a global phenomenon.

Detailed exploration of various football codes including soccer, rugby union, rugby league, American, Australian, Canadian, and Gaelic football.

Analysis of how the commercialized leisure industry of the nineteenth century influenced the development of different sporting rules.

Contextualizes the rise of football within the second industrial revolution and the emergence of mass media.

Provides a global perspective on how unorganized activities became structured, dominant forms of international entertainment.

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paperback
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Amazon UK
Release Date
03 August 2018
Listed Since
08 December 2017

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