Description:
How Football Began - Tony Collins - 2020
A Global History of How the World's Football Codes Were Born
By: Tony Collins
Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 01-30-20
Language: English
Genre: History, 20th Century
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Distribution
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo
Publisher's Summary
This ambitious and fascinating history considers why, in the space of 60 years, between 1850 and 1910, football grew from a marginal and unorganised activity to become the dominant winter entertainment for millions of people around the world.
This audiobook explores how the world’s football codes - soccer, rugby league, rugby union, American, Australian, Canadian and Gaelic - developed as part of the commercialised leisure industry in the 19th century. Football, however and wherever it was played, was a product of the second industrial revolution, the rise of the mass media and the spirit of the age of the masses.
It makes for an important listen for students of sports studies, history, sociology, development and management; this audiobook is also a valuable resource for scholars and academics involved in the study of football in all its forms as well as an engrossing listen for anyone interested in the early history of football.
©2019 Tony Collins (P)2019 Taylor & Francis
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