Globalization and sport / 
edited by Richard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson. 
 - Malden, MA ;  Oxford :  Blackwell Pub.,  2007. 
 - viii, 144 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/> "First published as volume 7, issue 2 of Global networks"--T.p. verso. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Sport and globalization : transnational dimensions / Richard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson -- Not playing around : global capitalism, modern sport, and consumer culture / Barry Smart -- The grobal in the sporting glocal / David L. Andrews and George Ritzer -- Steps to an ecology of transnational sports / Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- Recovering the social : globalization, football, and transnationalism / Richard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson -- Is baseball a global sport? : America's national pastime as global field and international sport / William W. Kelly -- More than a game : globalization and the post-westernization of world cricket / Chris Rumford -- Imagined communities in the global game : soccer and the development of Dutch national identity / Frank J. Lechner -- The global footballer and the local war-zone : George Weah and transnational networks in Liberia, West Africa / Gary Armstrong. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781405162692 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1405162694 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007028744 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sports and globalization.<br/>Nationalism and sports.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Aufsatzsammlung.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GV706.34  / .G56 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.4/83