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9780714682907

Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players: A Sociological Study of the Development of Rugby Football

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  • ISBN13:

    9780714682907

  • ISBN10:

    071468290X

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2005-02-02
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

First published in 1979, this classic study of the development of rugby from folk game to its modern Union and League forms has become a seminal text in sport history. In a new epilogue the authors provide sociological analysis of the major developments in international ruby that have taken place since 1979, with particular attention to the professionalism that was predicted in the first edition of this text. Sports lovers, rugby fans and students of the history and sociology of sport will find it invaluable.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword vii
Preface to the Second Edition xi
Preface to the First Edition xv
Introduction: The Development of Rugby Football as a Sociological Problem 1(16)
PART I Folk-Antecedents and Transitional Forms of Football in the Public Schools
17(38)
The folk-antecedents of modern Rugby and their decline
19(21)
Football in the early-nineteenth-century public schools
40(15)
PART II The Modernization of Rugby Football
55(116)
The preconditions for modernization: embourgeoisement and public school reform
57(12)
The incipient modernization of Rugby football
69(18)
The `civilizing process' and the formation of the RFU
87(26)
The democratization of Rugby football
113(12)
Professionalization and the amateur response
125(17)
The split
142(8)
The class structure and the professionalization of British sport
150(21)
PART III The Development of Rugby Football as a Modern Sport
171(59)
The professionalization of Rugby League
173(25)
Rugby Union as a modern sport: bureaucracy, gate-taking clubs and the swansong of amateurism
198(32)
Conclusion: Sociological reflections on the crisis in modern sport 230(17)
Afterword 247(40)
Notes and References 287(16)
Index 303

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