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Tony Collins - Rugby´s Great Split: Class, Culture and the Origins of Rugby League Football - 9780415396172 - V9780415396172
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Rugby´s Great Split: Class, Culture and the Origins of Rugby League Football

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Description for Rugby´s Great Split: Class, Culture and the Origins of Rugby League Football Paperback. Looking at rugby in late Victorian and Edwardian England, this title examines how class conflict tore rugby apart and led to the creation of rugby league. It focuses on how men and women became involved in rugby and the hostile reaction to them from rugby's middle-class leaders, and describes how the war for rugby's soul led to the 1895 split. Num Pages: 288 pages, 28 black & white illustrations, 14 black & white tables, 14 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBT; WSJF2. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 232 x 16. Weight in Grams: 438.

Since it’s first publication, Rugby’s Great Split has established itself as a classic in the field of sport history. Drawing on an unprecedented range of sources, this deeply researched and highly readable book traces the social, cultural and economic divisions that led, in 1895, to schism in the game of rugby and the creation of rugby league, the sport of England’s northern working class.

Tony Collins’ analysis challenges many of the conventional assumptions about this key event in rugby history – about class conflict, amateurism in sport, the North-South divide, violence on the pitch, the development of mass spectator sport ... Read more

Rugby’s Great Split is a benchmark text in the history of rugby, and an absorbing case study of wider issues – issues of class, gender, regional and national identity, and the impact of the commercialization and recent professionalization of rugby league. This insightful text is for anyone interested in Britain’s social history or in the emergence of modern sport, it is vital reading.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415396172
SKU
V9780415396172
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-8

About Tony Collins
De Montfort University, Leicester, UK Formerly at the University of Strathclyde, UK La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

Reviews for Rugby´s Great Split: Class, Culture and the Origins of Rugby League Football
"Tony Collins shows in this major work that there are reasons behind [rugby league] developing the way that it did and that they are reasons as honourable as those behind the rise of any other form of working class self-expression. It should be compulsory reading for anyone who believes that the game more than a hundred years later ... Read more

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