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Blowing the whistle : the politics of sport
- Title
- Blowing the whistle : the politics of sport / Garry Whannel.
- Author
- Whannel, Garry.
- Publication
- London : Pluto Press, 1983.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Description
- 117 pages; 20 cm.
- Series Statement
- Arguments for socialism
- Uniform Title
- Arguments for socialism.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Politics on the pitch (Olympic game ; Outside the stadium ; Invading the pitch ; Standing on the sidelines) -- Arguments about sport (Bread & circuses ; Sport & the state ; No business like sport business ; A sporting idea ; Stop the game or change the rules?) -- Ruling English games (Pre-industrial festivities ; All work and no play ; The public schools and the Oxbridge blues ; Gentlemen and players) -- Playing under Capitalism (Spectacle ; Resistances & alternatives ; Popular recreation) -- Sport & the State (The rise of the sports council ; The sports council and sport in the 1970s ; State policy and social reality) -- Arguments for Socialism (Sport for all ; What sort of games? ; A culture of sport).
- ISBN
- 0861045084
- 9780861045082
- LCCN
- 83151194
- OCLC
- ocm10037264
- 10037264
- SCSB-73637
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library