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" Rugby union and globalization : "
John Harris
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BL
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| Record Number
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711060
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b533249
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| Main Entry
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Harris, John,1972-
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| Title & Author
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Rugby union and globalization : : an odd-shaped world /\ John Harris
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| Publication Statement
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2010
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| Series Statement
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Global culture and sport
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| Page. NO
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xvi, 168 pages ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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023022931X (hardback)
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: 0230578195 (pbk.)
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: 9780230229310 (hardback)
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: 9780230578197 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Where and Why Rugby Matters -- The Rugby World Cup -- Power Shifts: From League to Union -- The Rugby Player as Celebrity -- Player Migration in the Professional Age -- The Migration of Coaches in Rugby Union -- Passports of Convenience -- The Lions Roar -- Flattening the Rugby World
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| Abstract
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"In 1995 rugby union finally became a professional sport following more than a century as an amateur game. This_book offers a critical analysis of the sport in the professional era and assesses the relationship between the local and the global in contemporary rugby union"--
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Nationalism and sports
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Rugby Union football
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Rugby Union football-- Sociological aspects
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Sports and globalization
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| Dewey Classification
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796.333
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GV946.2.H37 2010
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