Adrian Harvey

Football: The First Hundred Years (eBook, ePUB)

The Untold Story

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This revisionist history of football challenges commonly held beliefs about the birth of the modern game, demonstrating that outside of English public school codification a long history of an established and organized sport existed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134269112
• Artikelnr.: 38266147

Autorenporträt

Dr. Adrian Harvey is a tutor for the Workers' Education Association and for the Extra Murals Department of Birkbeck College, London University. He worked at a postman until 1992 and obtained an MA in Victorian Studies at Birkbeck College, London University and a D.Phil at Nuffield College, Oxford University in 1996. His works on sport and recreation have appeared in a number of periodicals and books.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Waiting for kick-off 1. What football was not: The history of
Shrove football 2. Entertaining the elite: Football at the public schools
and the universities 1555-1863 3. Football outside the public schools: From
American indians to Origin of the Species 4. An epoch in the annals of
sport: Britain's first football culture, Sheffield 1857-1867 5. Footballing
Backwaters? London, the F.A. and the rest, 1860 to 1867 6. Football splits
up but goes national: The creation of a national football culture 1868-1873
7. Kicking and carrying: The geographical distribution of sporting rules
1860-1873 8. Cups, leagues and professionals: Rugby and Association
1874-1901 9. Conclusions: The real history of the creation of modern
football.