A National Game: The History of Australian Rules Football

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Penguin Books Limited, 4 ago 2008 - 512 páginas
'I have yet to find a game that carries as much pleasure, as much harmless excitement, and as much stimulus as the Australasian game of football... The game is Australian in its origin, Australian in its principle, and, I venture to say, essentially Australian in its development.'

- Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, 1908

From its humble origins 150 years ago to the multi-million dollar budgets of today's elite teams, Australian Rules football has become a major industry. A truly home-grown sport, it has become embedded into the culture of the nation.

But how did it all begin, and what happened along the way to make the game the great spectacle that it is today? And at what cost? Have the grassroots levels of the code been obscured by the commercial interests of the AFL?

With original research, and including several never-before-published images, this is the only comprehensive history of the evolution of the game from the nineteenth century to the present day. It describes, for the first time, how and why Australian Rules football came to dominate the national sporting landscape.

Sobre el autor (2008)

Rob Hess is a Senior Lecturer with the School of Human Movement, Recreation and Performance at Victoria University. He is also the honorary historian for the Mentone and St Bede's Old Collegians Amateur Football Club, and serves as the Publications Officer of the Australian Society for Sports History.

Matthew Nicholson is an Associate Professor of Sport Management with the School of Human Movement and Sport Sciences at the University of Ballarat. He has published widely in the areas of football studies, sport policy and sport media, as well as the relationship between sport and social capital.

Bob Stewart is an Associate Professor in Sport Management with the School of Human Movement, Recreation and Performance at Victoria University. He has a special interest in the political economy of football and has written extensively on the post-modernisation and corporatisation of the game.

Gregory de Moore is a psychiatrist at Westmead Hospital, Sydney. He has recently completed a doctoral degree at Victoria University on the life of Tom Wills and has also written numerous academic and popular articles no the early years of Australian Rules football.

Información bibliográfica

TítuloA National Game: The History of Australian Rules Football
AutoresRob Hess, Matthew Nicholson, Bob Stewart, Gregory de Moore
EditorPenguin Books Limited, 2008
ISBN1742284299, 9781742284293
N.º de páginas512 páginas
  
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