World of Sport by Matthew Taylor - 9781032408637

Name: World of Sport by Matthew Taylor - 9781032408637
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Taylor & Francis Ltd

World of SportTransnational and Connected Histories\nAuthor(s): Matthew Taylor\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032408637, 978-1032408637\nSynopsis\nWorld of Sport examines the development of modern sport from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1960s in the light of transnational approaches to history.\n\nCritically probing existing studies and offering new insights, this volume demonstrates that while sport was a national and international phenomenon, it was invariably constructed transnationally. Taking in topics ranging from the dissemination of football codes to transpacific surfing cultures, and the touring lives of baseball and hockey players to the contact zones of international competition, it emphasises the importance of transnational perspectives in the way people around the globe experience sport. Like other forms of popular culture, sport cannot be properly understood without reference to the cross-na.