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Analysing the politics of the 2012 London Olympics, Stephen Wagg examines the framing of London's...

The Cold War spanned some five decades from the devastation that remained after World War Two unt...

This book takes stock of British football at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is wri...

This volume is built around three assumptions - first, that for huge numbers people around the wo...

In the essays collected here, amateurism, both as ideology and practice, is subject to critical a...

Written by experienced academics used to teaching the subject this book will help students and re...

Thatcher's Grandchildren explores sociological and political issues about childhood that have tha...

Because I Tell a Joke or Two explores the complex relationship between comedy and the social diff...

That childhood is a social construction is understood both by social scientists and in society ge...

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Peter Bramham and Stephen Wagg provide a foundation for those studying within the broad field of ...

This book draws from a rich history of scholarship about the relations between music and cities,...

The Cold War spanned some five decades from the devastation that remained after World War Two unt...

This ambitious new history recounts the politics of cricket around the world since the Second Wor...

This book takes stock of British football at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is wri...

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This book explores the history and politics of motor racing, one of the most popular and lucrativ...

This book looks at the remarkable sporting culture and traditions of the north as well as some of...

Written by experienced academics used to teaching the subject this book will help students and re...