Title: Rugby union and globalization :
Authors: Harris, John,
Date: 2010
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Physical description: xvi, 168 pages ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: G
Abstract: "In 1995 rugby union finally became a professional sport following more than a century as an amateur game. This_book offers a critical analysis of the sport in the professional era and assesses the relationship between the local and the global in contemporary rugby union"--
Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Where and Why Rugby Matters -- The Rugby World Cup -- Power Shifts: From League to Union -- The Rugby Player as Celebrity -- Player Migration in the Professional Age -- The Migration of Coaches in Rugby Union -- Passports of Convenience -- The Lions Roar -- Flattening the Rugby World.
Subject headings (LCSH): Nationalism and sports.; Professional sports--History.; Rugby Union football--History.; Rugby Union football--Sociological aspects.; Rugby Union football.; Sports and globalization.