Rugby union and globalization
Subtitle: an odd-shaped world
By: John Harris
Series: Global culture and sport
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780230229310; 9780230578197
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; SPORTS & RECREATION / Rugby; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Sociological aspects; Nationalism and sports; SPORTS & RECREATION / Sociology of Sports; Rugby Union football; Sports and globalization
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; title: Where and Why Rugby Matters; title: The Rugby World Cup; title: Power Shifts: From League to Union; title: The Rugby Player as Celebrity; title: Player Migration in the Professional Age; title: The Migration of Coaches in Rugby Union; title: Passports of Convenience; title: The Lions Roar; title: Flattening the Rugby World.