This volume examines modern sport in its social context and concludes that it is beset with over-commercialised motives, damaged by dangerous political alignments and marred by wrongheaded social values. The book provides a thought-provoking analysis and offers new insights into why and how modern sport has evolved into its present dominant position. It calls for radical reforms in the structure of, and attitudes towards, sport.

Fair Game: Myth and Reality in Sport

Eric Midwinter

Allen& Unwin

This evocative collection features 80 photographs of Britain taken between the invasion of Poland and the Queen's coronation, an event described as 'the real end of the war' because of the change in the national mood after the enduring social impact of the conflict. Female factory workers, Blitz-battered buildings, evacuees, ration queues, ENSA performances, VE Day, jitterbugging, the Festival of Britain and the creation of the NHS all feature in this portrait of a country under pressure.

Yesterdays: Our finest hours, 1939-1953

Souvenir Press

Brylcreem Summer

Sports & Outdoors

Other Team Sports

Kingswood Press

Education for Sale (Routledge Library Editions: Education)

Routledge

The Cricketers' Progress: Meadowland to Mumbai

Third Age Press

Britain's Story: An Overview of British History

Novel Approaches: A Guide to the Popular Classic Novel

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Quill on Willow: Cricket in Literature

Aeneas Press

Class Peace: An Analysis of Social Status and English Cricket 1846-1962

The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians

Book 9781919638904

Max Books

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