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Book Reviews

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Pages 232-249 | Published online: 07 Mar 2007
 

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Christiane Eisenberg (ed.), Fuβball, soccer, calcio: Ein englischer Sport auf seinem Weg um die Welt (Munich: DTV, 1997). Pp.234. 29.90 DM. ISBN 3–423–04709–7.

R. Forsyth, Blue and True: Unforgettable Rangers Days (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1996). Pp.192, 12 photographs, index. £14.99 (cloth); £9.99 (paper — Blue and True: the Rangers Dream Team, 1997). ISBN 1–85158–887–6; 1–84018016–1.

R. Forsyth, Fields of Green: Unforgettable Celtic Days (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1996). Pp.192, 12 photographs, index. £14.99 (cloth); £9.99 (paper — Fields of Green: the Celtic Dream Team, 1997). ISBN 1–85158–8884; 1–84018–015–3.

Roy Porter and Marie Mulvey Roberts (eds.), Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century. New York: New York University Press, 1996. Pp.273. ISBN 0–8147–6644–7.

G. Edward White, Creating the National Pastime: Baseball Transforms Itself 1903–1953 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996). Pp.xiiiix, 368, 24 photographs, index. £19.95. ISBN 0–691–03488–5.

David Miller, Our Sporting Times (London: Pavilion, 1996). Pp.288. $39.95. ISBN 1–85793–880–1.

Neil Wigglesworth, The Evolution of English Sport (London and Portland, Oregon: Frank Cass, 1996). Pp.192, illustrations, bibliography, index. £32.50/$45.00 (cloth); £15.00/$19.50 (paper). ISBN 0–7146–4685–7; 0–7146–4219–3.

Roger Munting, An Economic and Social History of Gambling in Britain and the U.S.A. (Manchester University Press, 1996). Pp. 252, index. £40.00. ISBN 0–7190–4449–9.

Pierre Arnaud, Une histoire des sports (Paris: la Documentation Française Bimestriel no.7029, dossier documentation photographique). (La Documentation Française, 124 r. Henri Barbusse 93308 Aubervilliers Cedex, France 110FF.)

Albert Grundlingh, Andre Odendaal and Burridge Spies, Beyond the Tryline: Rugby and South African Society (Ravan Press: Johannesburg, 1995). Pp.135. R39.95. ISBN 0–86975–457–2.

N.M. Kennell, The Gymnasium of Virtue: Education and Culture in Ancient Sparta (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995). Pp.xi + 241. $39.95. ISBN 0–8078–2219–1.

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