Global And Transnational Sport Ambiguous Borders Connected Domains

The Eight Chapters In This Book Explore More Than 150 Years Of The Development Of Several Modern Sports - Baseball, Basketball, Cricket, Football, Handball, Ice Hockey And Lacrosse - Across The Two Americas, Asia, Australia And Europe, Some Analysing A Century Of Events Since The Mid-nineteenth Century And Some Only A Few Years In The Very Present. Drawing On The Methods Of History, International Relations, Political Science, And Sociology, The Contributing Authors Examine Various Theories Of Sporting Globalization. The Chapters Take A Balanced Look At The Concepts Of The Nation State And The Connected World, Which Are The Substantive Core Around Which Modern Human Society Is Ordered.