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Amateurs and Professionals in Post-War British Sport
ISBN: 9781315039848
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Humanities; Sports and Leisure; History; Sport and Leisure Studies; Social & Cultural History; Sports History;

The pressures and demands of professionalism and commercialization have transformed Britain's sports. At the end of the 20th century sports have been packaged and marketed as mass entertainment for a national or even international audience. This volume explores different facets of this phenomenon.