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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Capitalism and the birth of modern sport
• 2 Class conflict and the decline of traditional games
• 3 Sport, nationalism and the French Revolution
• 4 The middle-class invention of amateurism
• 5 Women and the masculine kingdom of sport
• 6 The Victorian sporting industrial revolution
• 7 Sport and the age of empire
• 8 Unfair play: the racial politics of sport
• 9 Soccer’s rise to globalism
• 10 The second revolution: sport between the world wars
• 11 Revolutionary sport
• 12 Sex, drugs and sport in the Cold War
• 13 Taking sides in the 1960s
• 14 The revolution is being televised
• 15 Winners and losers: sport in the New World Order
• Conclusion: what future for sport?
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index