How Football Began

A Global History of How the World's Football Codes Were Born

De: Tony Collins

Narrado por: Ric Jerrom

Duración: 8 h y 33 m

Resumen del Editor

• Considers why football grew from a marginal and un-organised activity into a dominant entertainment for millions around the world.
• Compares the development of each of the major forms of football (soccer, rugby union, rugby league, American, Canadian, Australian and Gaelic)
• Uses the context of the growth of commercialised leisure in the late nineteenth century

©2020 Taylor & Francis (P)2020 Routledge

Reseñas de la Crítica

"The origins of football’s many codes and their complex relationship to each other has been one of sporting history's great grey areas, dominated by hearsay and invention. No longer. Tony Collins’ cool and illuminating How Football Began brings range, precision and sources to bear on the matter. As is often the case, the truths that emerge are infinitely more interesting than the myths they dispel."—David Goldblatt, Author of The Ball is Round: A Global History of Football and The Game of Our Lives

"Collins takes a fascinating look at the history, development, branching, and codification of football in all of its forms around the world, particularly in the late 19th century … Because the connections between these sports has long been forgotten, Collins weaves a meticulous history of them devoid of myth and speculation. How Football Began charts today’s remarkable global reach and the spectacle of football in all of its forms. Summing Up: Highly recommended."—B. D. Singleton, California State University San Bernardino, CHOICE May 2019

“Collins cleverly untangles the spatial and temporal web of football’s socioeconomic history into a linear medium while also weaving together the perspectives of administrators and the press from archival records with secondary literature to build a map representing the “primordial soup” nature of early football.”—Katrina Cohen-Palacios, York University