A History of Sport in Wales
Author(s) Martin Johnes
Language: English
Genre(s): Welsh Interest
Series: Pocket Guides
- November 2005 · 144 pages ·177x112mm
- · Paperback - 9780708319468
About The Book
A brand new Pocket Guide which charts the concise history of sport in Wales since 1800. The book locates the character and structure of sport within the wider social, political and economic context that shaped it.
Endorsements
'This overview of sport in Wales is a valuable and most welcome addition to the 'Pocket Guide' series and succeeds in being both readable and thought-provoking...The strength of the volume is the author's ability to contextualize sport with reference to the political, social, economic and cultural history of Wales...provides a valuable discussion of the role of sport in 'forging a wider popular sense of Welsh nationhood' It is a remarkable and admirable achievement'. Planet