World of Sport: Transnational and Connected Histories

by Matthew Taylor

World of Sport examines the development of modern sport from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1960s in the light of transnational approaches to history.

Critically probing existing studies and offering new insights, this volume demonstrates that while sport was a national and international phenomenon, it was invariably constructed transnationally. Taking in topics ranging from the dissemination of football codes to transpacific surfing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032408626
• ISBN13: 9781032408620
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"