Sport and Politics in Modern Britain
Subtitle: the road to 2012
By: Kevin Jefferys
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230291874
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy; Sports and state; History; Olympic Games (30th : 2012 : London, England); HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain; SPORTS & RECREATION / General; Sports
Description: "Kevin Jefferys provides the first comprehensive historical account of the greatly increased interaction between sport and politics in Britain since World War Two. Jefferys sets sport within the changing socio-political context and balances an appreciation of continuity and change from the London Olympics of 1948 to those of 2012"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction Sport and Politics in Austerity Britain, 1945-51Britain in the World of Sport,1951-59The Impact of the Wolfenden Report, 1960-64Creating and Running the Sports Council, 1964-67"Ballyhoo" about Sport in the Late 1960sBattling for "Sport and Recreation" in the 1970sThe Olympics and International SportThe 1980s: "Years of Concern"Raising the Game, 1990-97Regions and LocalitiesNew Labour and Sport, 1997-2010Epilogue: Towards 2012Chronology of Main EventsNotes Select Bibliography Index.