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Emergence of Football - Sport, Culture and Society in the Nineteenth Century

English · Hardback

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The Emergence of Football fuses sports history into mainstream economic, social and cultural history, setting the development of the people’s game against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution.

List of contents

1. A Short History of Early Football 2. A Brief Historiography of the Industrial Revolution 3. Cultural Change: Football’s Demise in the Eastern Counties Before 1830 4. Folk Mass and Festival Football: The Arguments 5. Folk, Mass and Festival Football: The Evidence 6. Cultural Continuity: Football Outside the Public Schools, 1800-1830 7. The Missing Years, 1831- 1840 8. Football in the Forties and Fifties 9. The Football Association, Sheffield and Lancashire in the Sixties 10. Class, Clubs and Football: The Unfolding Century

About the author

Peter Swain is Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Worktown Studies at the University of Bolton, UK, and is a leading contributor to the so-called ‘Origins of Football’ Debate.

Summary

The Emergence of Football fuses sports history into mainstream economic, social and cultural history, setting the development of the people’s game against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution.

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