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Sport’s Relationship with Other Leisure Industries : Historical Perspectives, Paperback / softback Book

Sport’s Relationship with Other Leisure Industries : Historical Perspectives Paperback / softback

Edited by Benjamin (University of Huddersfield, UK) Litherland, Dion (Queen Mary University of London, UK) Georgiou

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This innovative and timely volume of essays critically interrogates the shared histories between sport and a variety of leisure, entertainment and cultural pursuits.

Sport’s Relationship with Other Leisure Industries: Historical perspectives spans the bowling greens of early modern England to the postmodern exhibition halls of contemporary Las Vegas, and considers examples from Europe, North America and India.

Utilizing a range of historical methods and sources, they describe how sport has interacted with a broad range of leisure forms, including tourism, shopping, theatre, circus, carnival and film.

The collection takes into account the economic, cultural, geographic and political interactions sport has forged and poses a series of questions: about how sport has been forged in contemporary consumer capitalism; about the manner in which it has been shaped by space and place; and the ways in which entrepreneurs, sportspeople and artists have represented sporting competition.

The collection will help both students and scholars conceptualise sporting networks, and will be of interest to those working in multiple fields.

This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in History.

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