The Evolution of English Sport / Edition 1

by Neil Wigglesworth

Overview

This work uses original material from clubs and sporting organizations to illuminate the evolution of sporting activity nation-wide. It relates these documents to themes such as commercialism and club fortunes. It concludes by discussing the outlook for English sport.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714646855
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/01/1996
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Albion

"While he has researched the minute books of more than 120 English sports clubs, his masterful integration of the impact of social tensions, economic developments, government policies, and great historical developments upon sport makes his book stimulating."



Culture, Sport, Society: Vol. 2, No. 1

"In many important ways the book has considerable value."



Culture, Sport, Society, Vol 2, No 1

"A study which adds usefully to our stock of knowledge."



Contemporary British History, Vol 10, No 4, Winter 96

"Wigglesworth has made an important contribution with this book as he has fulfilled his stated aim of widening the perspective of sports history."



The Sports Historian, Vol 17, No 2

"A great strength of the book is that unlike so many studies of sport it considers the recreational as well as the first-class variants of sport.

Editorial Reviews

Wigglesworth (history, Lancaster U.) draws on primary material particularly minutes, accounts, annual reports, correspondence, and press reports of sports clubs to provide a broader history of English sport than the usual high-brow amateur accounts. He illuminates the evolution of sporting activity and relates it to such themes as commercialism, professionalism, amateurism, recreationism, and club fortunes. He reviews earlier periods briefly but focuses on the 19th and 20th centuries. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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