@article{711510,
      author = {Steen, Rob,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/711510},
      title = {Floodlights and touchlines : a history of spectator sport  /},
      abstract = {"Focusing on spectator sports and their accompanying  issues, tracing their origins, evolution and impact, inside  the lines and beyond the boundary, this book offers a  thematic history of professional sport and the ingredients  that magnetize the world. It tells the stories that matter:  from the gladiators of Rome to the runners of Rift Valley  via the innovator-missionaries of Rugby School ; from  multifaceted British exports to the Americanisation of  professionalism and the Indianisation of cricket. Rob Steen  traces the development of the sports that capitvate the  turnstile millions and the mouse-clicking masses,  addressing their key themes and commonalities, from  creation myths to match-fixing via race, politics,  sexuality and internationalism. Insightful and revelatory,  this is an entertaining exploration of spectator sports'  intrinsic place in culture and how sport imitates life -  and life imitates sport"--Book jacket.},
      recid = {711510},
      pages = {xii, 531 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :},
}