Kenneth Sheard, Eric Dunning (UK Leicester University)

Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players

A Sociological Study of the Development of Rugby Football

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Produktbeschreibung

This revised edition of a classic text explores the development of rugby from a folk game into its modern forms. Updated with a substantial new foreword and epilogue.

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Produktdetails

• Sport in the Global Society
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9780714682907
• ISBN-10: 071468290X
• Artikelnr.: 21149068

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Sheard, Eric Dunning

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Folk Antecedents and Transitional Forms of Football in the Public
Schools 1. The folk antecedents of modern rugby and their decline 2.
Football in the early 19th century public schools Part II: The
Modernisation of Rugby Football 3. The preconditions for modernization:
embourgeoisement and public school reform 4. The incipient modernization of
rugby football 5. The 'civilising process' and the formation of the RFU. 6.
The democratization of rugby football. 7. Professionalisation and the
amateur response. 8. The split. 9. The class structure and the
professionalisation of British sport. Part III: The Development of Rugby
Football as a Modern Sport 10. The professionalisation of rugby league. 11.
Rugby union as a modern sport: bureaucracy, gate-taking clubs and the
swansong of amateurism. Conclusion: Sociological Reflections on the Crisis
in Modern Sport