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Mark Dyreson, Making The American Team. Sport, Culture And The Olympic Experience, Urbana, Illinois: University Of Illinois Press, 1998, Pp. 269. Us$ 18.95. Isbn 0-252-06654-5. Reviewed by Mike Cronin
Donald G. Kyle, Spectacles Of Death In Ancient Rome, London And New York: Routledge, 1998, Pp. Xx + 288, Isbn 0-415-09678-2 Reviewed by Benny Peiser
Robin Lester, Stagg's University: The Rise, Decline And Fall Of Big Time Football At Chicago. Urbana: University Of Illinois Press, Illini Books Edition, 1999, Pp. 301 U.S. $13.95 (Paperback) Isbn 0-252-06791-6. Reviewed by S.J.S. Ickringill
Andrew Moore, The Mighty Bears! A Social History of North Sydney Rugby League, Macmillan, Sydney, 1996, Pp. 592. ISBN 0 7329 0869 8. Reviewed by Tony Collins
Maurice Roche (ed.), Sport, Popular Culture and Identity, Aachen, Meyer & Meyer Verlag, 1998, Pp. xiii +224. £12.95. ISBN 3-89124-468-1 Reviewed by Mike Cronin
Neil Tranter, Sport, Economy and Society in Britain, 1750–1914, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, Pp. v + 112. £6.95. ISBN 0 521 57217 7 (hardback), 0521 57655 5 (paperback). Reviewed by Matthew Taylor
Jack Williams, Cricket and England: A Cultural and Social History of the Inter-War Years, London: Frank Cass Publishers, 1999, Pp. xx + 217. £ 35.00. ISBN 0-7146 4861 2. Reviewed by Keith A.P. Sandiford
Frank Zarnowski, Olympic Glory Denied and a Final Opportunity for Glory Restored Glendale, CA: Griffin Publishing, 1996, Pp. 280., US $18.95. ISBN 1-882180-7-4. Reviewed by Ian Buchanan