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    Eric Dunning and the Sociology of Sport

    This book celebrates the life and career of Eric Dunning. Eric Dunning was a pioneer of the sociology of sport, firstly known for his ground-breaking theoretical work with Norbert Elias…

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    Sport: Readings from a Sociological Perspective

    This collection of essays provides an international comparative and developmental orientation to the sociology of sport, thereby clarifying the nature of modern sports and their central structural and functional characteristics.

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    Sport Matters: Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence and Civilization

    Eric Dunning

    Offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of modern sport from a sociological perspective. It covers areas such as sport and the emotions, the commercialisation and professionalisation of sport and…

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    Sport Matters: Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence and Civilization

    Eric Dunning

    In recent years the sociocultural significance of sport has increasing been recognised in countries around the world. Sport Matters offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of modern sport from…

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    Figuring Modern Sport

    Eric Dunning

    Presents a sociological study of aspects of the development of sport, particularly football and football hooliganism, from the perspective of figurative sociology, as exemplified in the writings of Norbert Elias.

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    Fighting Fans: Football Hooliganism as a World Phenomenon

    Why have problems of hooliganism from the outset become more regularly attached to soccer than to other global sports? This volume considers soccer hooliganism in 14 countries and shows that…

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    Fighting Fans: Football Hooliganism as a World Phenomenon

    Eric Dunning

    Why have problems of hooliganism from the outset become more regularly attached to soccer than to other global sports? This volume considers soccer hooliganism in 14 countries and shows that…

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    Matters of Sport: Essays in Honour of Eric Dunning

    This festschrift in honour of Eric Dunning - the leading sports sociologist in the English- speaking world - addresses his contributions to the sociological and historical study of sport with…

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    Matters of Sport: Essays in Honour of Eric Dunning

    This festschrift in honour of Eric Dunning - the leading sports sociologist in the English- speaking world - addresses his contributions to the sociological and historical study of sport with…

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    Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players: A Sociological Study of the Development of Rugby Football

    Kenneth Sheard,Eric Dunning (University of Leicester, UK)

    This revised edition of a classic text explores the development of rugby from a folk game into its modern forms. Updated with a substantial new foreword and epilogue.

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    Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players: A Sociological Study of the Development of Rugby Football

    Kenneth Sheard,Eric Dunning (University of Leicester, UK)

    This revised edition of a classic text explores the development of rugby from a folk game into its modern forms. Updated with a substantial new foreword and epilogue.

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    Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process: Critique and Counter-Critique

    How do figurational sociologists approach the subjects of sport and leisure? How does their approach differ from other approaches in the field? This major collection, edited by leading writers on…

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    Sport: Critical Concepts in Sociology

    This collection offers a selection of classic works and journal articles on the sociology of sport. The four volumes cover Approaches to the Study of Sport , The Development and…

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    Handbook of Sports Studies

    Eric Dunning

    “It is not only about sport, but the contexts [and] cultures that encircle it. The authors[…] review every known theory, topic and problem relevant to the scholarly analysis of sport……

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    Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process: Critique and Counter-Critique

    This unique and accessible collection is an important contribution to the growing area of sport and leisure studies.

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    Handbook of Sports Studies

    The handbook of Sport Studies reflects the development and consolidation of Sports Studies as a mature and vital field of study.

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    Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process: Critique and Counter-Critique

    How do figurational sociologists approach the subjects of sport and leisure? How does their approach differ from other approaches in the field? This major collection, edited by leading writers on…

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    Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilising Process

    Norbert Elias,Eric Dunning

    Argues that in highly constrained, ‘civilised’ societies, sports - as well as a spectrum of other cultural and leisure activities - are to be understood not in terms of ‘relaxation’…

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    The Roots of Football Hooliganism: An Historical and Sociological Study

    Eric Dunning (University of Leicester, UK),Patrick J. Murphy,John Williams

    This systematic historical and sociological study of the phenomenon of football hooliganism examines the history of crowd disorderliness at association football matches in Britain and assesses both popular and academic…

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    The Roots of Football Hooliganism: An Historical and Sociological Study

    Eric Dunning (University of Leicester, UK),Patrick J. Murphy,John Williams

    This systematic historical and sociological study of the phenomenon of football hooliganism examines the history of crowd disorderliness at association football matches in Britain and assesses both popular and academic…

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    Norbert Elias

    Norbert Elias (1897-1990) is now widely regarded as one of the greatest sociologists of the 20th century. These four volumes provide a comprehensive and penetrating survey of Elias’s life and…

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    Association Football: A study in figurational sociology

    Graham Curry (University of Leicester, UK),Eric Dunning (University of Leicester, UK)

    This book presents a synthesis of the work on early football undertaken by the authors over the past two decades. It explores aspects of a figurational approach to sociology to…

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    Association Football: A study in figurational sociology

    Graham Curry (University of Leicester, UK),Eric Dunning (University of Leicester, UK)

    This book presents a synthesis of the work on early football undertaken by the authors over the past two decades. It explores aspects of a figurational approach to sociology to…

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    Sport Histories: Figurational Studies in the Development of Modern Sports

    Sports Histories draws on figurational sociology to provide a fresh approach to analysing the development of modern sport.

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    Sport Histories: Figurational Studies in the Development of Modern Sports

    This book draws on figurational sociology to provide a fresh approach to analysing the development of modern sport, looking at both mainstream and less well studied sports.

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    Studies on the Germans

    Norbert Elias

    First published in German in 1989, exactly 50 years after the author’s most famous work, On the Process of Civilisation, this edition features his original English text of the essay…

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    Hooligans Abroad (RLE Sports Studies): The Behaviour and Control of English Fans in Continental Europe

    John M. Williams,Eric Dunning,Patrick J. Murphy

    This book traces international developments in the hooligan phenomenon since the Heysel tragedy of 1985. The authors make special reference to the troubled European championships in West Germany in 1988…

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    Hooligans Abroad (RLE Sports Studies): The Behaviour and Control of English Fans in Continental Europe

    John M. Williams,Eric Dunning,Patrick J. Murphy

    This book traces international developments in the hooligan phenomenon since the Heysel tragedy of 1985. The authors make special reference to the troubled European championships in West Germany in 1988…

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    13 ½ Reasons Why NOT To Be A Liberal: And How to Enlighten Others

    Judd Dunning

    THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO WINNING AN ARGUMENT WITH A LIBERAL.

    Antifa leftists may still burn this book, but more than a few center-left individuals will read 13 ½ Reasons Why…

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    Football on Trial: Spectator Violence and Development in the Football World

    Eric Dunning,Patrick Murphy,Patrick J Murphy,John Williams

    The leading writers in the field extend their analysis formulated in Hooligans Abroad and The Roots of Football Hooliganism to shed new light on one of the most troubling social…

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    Football on Trial: Spectator Violence and Development in the Football World

    Eric Dunning,Patrick Murphy,Patrick J Murphy,John Williams

    Examines the causes of football hooliganism as a world phenomenon, considering the links between player violence and crowd violence, and the role of the media. It looks ahead to the…

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    The Dunning School: Historians, Race, and the Meaning of Reconstruction

    From the late nineteenth century until World War I, a group of Columbia University students gathered under the mentorship of the renowned historian William Archibald Dunning (1857–1922).

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    Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology: Knowledge, Interdependence, Power, Process

    Eric Dunning (Emeritus Prof Sociology),Jason Hughes (Senior Lecturer, Grad Tutor, Deputy Head of Sch, University of Leicester, UK)

    The book offers accessible explanations of some of Norbery Elias’ key ideas. The book considers Elias’ theories in relation to contemporary topics, and also seeks to ‘locate’ his work in…

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    Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology: Knowledge, Interdependence, Power, Process

    Eric Dunning (Emeritus Prof Sociology),Jason Hughes (Senior Lecturer, Grad Tutor, Deputy Head of Sch, University of Leicester, UK)

    The book offers accessible explanations of some of Norbery Elias’ key ideas. The book considers Elias’ theories in relation to contemporary topics, and also seeks to ‘locate’ his work in…

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    On the Process of Civilisation

    Norbert Elias

    Beginning with the author’s celebrated study of the changing standards of behaviour of the secular upper classes in Western Europe since the Middle Ages, this title demonstrates how psychological changes…

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