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Rugby union and globalization : an odd-shaped world / John Harris

Author
Harris, John, 1972-
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Physical Description
xvi, 168 pages ; 23 cm.

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Where and Why Rugby Matters -- The Rugby World Cup -- Power Shifts: From League to Union -- The Rugby Player as Celebrity -- Player Migration in the Professional Age -- The Migration of Coaches in Rugby Union -- Passports of Convenience -- The Lions Roar -- Flattening the Rugby World.
Summary
"In 1995 rugby union finally became a professional sport following more than a century as an amateur game. This_book offers a critical analysis of the sport in the professional era and assesses the relationship between the local and the global in contemporary rugby union"--
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ISBN
9780230229310 (hardback)
023022931X (hardback)
9780230578197 (pbk.)
0230578195 (pbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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