Sport in Capitalist Society: A Short History

Abstract

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 in the New World Order Conclusion: What Future for Sport?