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Book reviews

1987; Routledge; Volume: 4; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/09523368708713631

1743-9035

Allen Warren, Pamela Horn, M.K. Howells, G.P.T. Finn, John Twigg, N. L. Tranter, Don Morrow, Grant Jarvie, Jim Riordan, Edward K. Spann, Robert Lewis, Paul Beedie,

Sport and Mega-Event Impacts

Michael Rosenthal, The Character Factory: Baden‐Powell and the Origins of the Boy Scout Movement (London, 1986). pp.335 £15. John Foyster and Keith Proud, Gamekeeper (London and Newton Abbot: North Pomfret (Vt): David & Charles, 1986). Pp.192. £9.95. ISBN 0 7153 8841 X. Nevill Miroy, The History of Hockey (Laleham on Thames: Lifeline, 1986). Pp.318. £9.95. Alan Tomlinson and Gary Whannel (eds.), Off the Ball: The Football World Cup (London: Pluto, 1986). Pp.174. £3.50. David Foot, Sunshine, Sixes and Cider. The History of Somerset Cricket (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1986). Pp.224. £12.95. ISBN 0–7153–8890–8. Lincoln Allison (ed.), The Politics of Sport (Manchester: Manchester University Press 1986). Pp.viii + 264. £25. ISBN 0 7190 1871 4. M.L. Howell and R.A. Howell (eds.), History of Sport in Canada (Champaign, Illinois: Stipes Publishing Company, 1985) Pp.x + 477. $16.80. ISBN 0–87563–269–6. Alice B. Gomme, The Traditional Games of England, Scotland and Ireland (London: Thames and Hudson, 1984). Pp.531. £9.50. Charles Korr, West Ham United. The Making of a Football Club (London: Duckworth, 1986). Pp.257. £7.95 (paperback). Melvin L Adelman, A Sporting Time: New York City and the Rise of Modern Athletics 1820–10 (London: Harper & Row, 1986) Pp.xiii + 388. £23.75. ISBN 0–252–01250‐X. Elliot J. Gorn, The Manly Art: Bare‐Knuckle Prize Fighting in America (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1986). Pp. 316. $27.45. Bill Peascod, Journey After Dawn (Milnthorpe, Cicerone Press, 1985). Pp.173. £10.95.