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Book reviews

1992; Routledge; Volume: 9; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/09523369208713809

1743-9035

Roger B. Beck, Richard C. Crepeau, Doug A. Mishler, Debra A. Shattuck, Allen Guttmann, Brian Stoddart, Martin Polley, Eduardo P. Archetti, Ian Reader,

Sport and Mega-Event Impacts

Steven A. Riess, City Games: The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989). Kenneth M. Jennings. Balls and Strikes: The Money Game in Professional Sports (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1990). Pp.283. $24.95. ISBN 0–275–93441–1. Bruce Kuklick, To Every Thing a Season: Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia, 1909–1976 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991). Pp.237. ISBN 0–691–04788‐X. Kenneth L. Shropshire, Agents of Opportunity: Sports Agents and Corruption in Collegiate Sports (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990). Pp. 181. ISBN 0–8122–8212–4. Anna K. Nardo, The Ludic Self in Seventeenth‐Century English Literature (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1991). Pp.x + 263. $16.95 (paper). John Figueroa, West Indies In England: The Great Post‐War Tours (London: Kingswood Press, 1991). Pp. 1–223. £14.99 (hardback). ISBN 0–413–64390–5. John Coghlan with Ida M. Webb, Sport and British Politics since 1960 (Basingstoke and Bristol, Pennsylvania: Falmer Press, 1990). Pp.x + 328. £28.00 (cloth) and £12.95 (paperback). ISBN 1–85000–809–4 and 1–85000–810–8. Brian Glanville, Champions of Europe: The History, Romance and Intrigue of the European Cup (Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Publishing). Pp. 192. £12.99. ISBN 0–85112–948‐X. Stephen Turnbull, Samurai Warriors (London: Blandford, 1991). Pp. 160, including 36 colour plates of illustrations by James Field. £8.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–7137–2285–1.