More Than a Game: Sports and Politics

by Martin Barry Vinokur

Despite the increasing importance and politicization of sport, Western scholars have only recently begun to consider it as a subject worthy of serious study and research. Martin Vinokur contends that sport has become an increasingly pervasive and visibly central element in Western culture and that its function as a political tool is likely to grow still more in the 1990s, as governments realize the full value of sports to the political socialization...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313253536
• ISBN13: 9780313253539
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 169 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"