Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-269) and index.
Contents:
Sport, gender and civilization. Sport in the Western civilizing process -- Sport in space and time : trajectories of state formation and the early development of modern sport -- The development of soccer as a world game -- The dynamics of sports consumption -- Soccer hooliganism as a world social problem -- Sports crowd violence in North America -- Sport in the process of racial stratification : the case of the USA -- Sport, gender and civilization.
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