Barbarians, gentlemen, and players : a sociological study of the development of rugby football / Eri...
Barbarians, gentlemen, and players : a sociological study of the development of rugby football / Eri...
Barbarians, gentlemen, and players : a sociological study of the development of rugby football / Eric Dunning and Kenneth Sheard.
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Publisher
London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
Date
2005.
Call Numbers
N796.333/45
Record Identifier
MMS ID
Language
English
Formats
Physical Description
Physical content
xviii, 310 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction : the development of rugby football as a sociological problem -- 1. The folk-antecedents of modern rugby and their decline -- 2. Football in the early-nineteenth-century public schools -- 3. The preconditions for modernization : embourgeoisement and public school reform -- 4. The incipi...
Publication information
Publisher
London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
Edition
2nd ed.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2005.
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Summary
"First published in 1979 this classic text was the first study of the development of Rugby and has a seminal place in the library of the history and sociology of sport. With a new foreword and a new afterword, Dunning and Sheard now provide a sociological analysis of the major developments that have taken place in Rugby since the 1980s, with partic...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Barbarians, gentlemen, and players : a sociological study of the development of rugby football / Eric Dunning and Kenneth Sheard.
Notes
General note
Sport in the global society.
Previous ed.: Oxford, England : M. Robertson, 1979.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
N796.333/45
Record Identifier
74Vvyv0pblMM
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vvyv0pblMM
Other Identifiers
ISBN
071468290X (pbk.)
9780714653532
0714653535
DDC
796.333
MMS ID
991016057689702626
