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Sport and the British: A Modern History.

John Morton Osborne, +1 more
- 01 Apr 1991 - 
- Vol. 96, Iss: 2, pp 516
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This article is published in The American Historical Review.The article was published on 1991-04-01. It has received 93 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social history & Modern history.

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Reimaging the city: the value of sport initiatives

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the value of sport as a reimaging theme for the contemporary city destination based on evidence regarding the effects of initiatives adopted by three English cities: Birmingham, Manchester, and Sheffield.
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A companion to nineteenth-century Britain

TL;DR: The relationship between trade and industrialization is explored by R. R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics (1988), to which I. H. Stone, The Global Export of Capital from Great Britain, 1865-1914 (1999) is a valuable addition as mentioned in this paper.
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Racism and Anti-Racism in Football

Jon Garland, +1 more
TL;DR: A Design for Life: Deconstructing the Game's National Identities Mad Dogs: England, The Media and English Supporters During Euro '96 and France '98 Conclusion: Racisms and the Cultures of Football Index as discussed by the authors
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Creating opportunities for institutional entrepreneurship: The Colonel and the Cup in English County Cricket

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how actors within a mature cultural field use their field positions to create opportunities for institutional entrepreneurship and find that "lone hero" institutional entrepreneurs who experience failure from working in relative isolation learn to acquire new resources and deploy them in new tactics leading to a more collective approach.