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The Emergence of Football fuses sports history into mainstream economic, social and cultural history, setting the development of the peoples game against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution.

The book challenges conventional histories of nineteenth-century football that surrounded mass games and the public schools and extends the revisionist critique of those histories with the imaginative use of new and original empirical evidence. It outlines the continuing presence of a working-class footballing culture across the century, arguing that the structure of football was a product of industrialisation, urbanisation and population growth that had resulted in a far-reaching restructuring of the class system and urban hierarchies. It was these new hierarchies and class system that gave birth to professional football by the late 1870s.

It is essential reading for students of sports studies, economic, social and cultural history, urban and local history, and sociology, as well as a valuable resource for scholars and academics involved in the study of football across the world. This is an absorbing and fascinating read for any of the millions of fans of the game who are interested in the early history of football.

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The Emergence of Football
The Emergence of Football fuses sports history into mainstream economic, social and cultural history, setting the development of the peoples game against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution.
The book challenges conventional histories of nineteenth-century football that surrounded mass games and the public schools and extends the revisionist critique of those histories with the imaginative use of new and original empirical evidence. It outlines the continuing presence of a working-class footballing culture across the century, arguing that the structure of football was a product of industrialisation, urbanisation and population growth that had resulted in a far-reaching restructuring of the class system and urban hierarchies. It was these new hierarchies and class system that gave birth to professional football by the late 1870s.
It is essential reading for students of sports studies, economic, social and cultural history, urban and local history, and sociology, as well as a valuable resource for scholars and academics involved in the study of football across the world. This is an absorbing and fascinating read for any of the millions of fans of the game who are interested in the early history of football.
Peter Swain is Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Worktown Studies at the University of Bolton, UK, and is a leading contributor to the so-called Origins of Football Debate.
Routledge Research in Sports History
The Routledge Research in Sports History series presents leading research in the development and historical significance of modern sport through a collection of historiographical, regional and thematic studies which span a variety of periods, sports and geographical areas. Showcasing ground-breaking, cross-disciplinary work from established and emerging sport historians, the series provides a crucial contribution to the wider study of sport and society.
Available in this series:
Wrestling in Britain
Sporting Entertainments, Celebrity and Audiences
Benjamin Litherland
A History of Chinese Martial Arts
Edited by Fan Hong and Fuhua Huang
The Early Development of Football
Contemporary Debates
Edited by Graham Curry
Sport, War and the British
1850 to the Present
Peter Donaldson
The Emergence of Football
Sport, Culture and Society in the Nineteenth Century
Peter Swain
For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/sport/series/RRSH
The Emergence of Football
Sport, Culture and Society in the Nineteenth Century
Peter Swain
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First published 2020
by Routledge
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
2020 Peter Swain
The right of Peter Swain to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
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Names: Swain, Peter, Dr., author. | Routledge (Firm)
Title: The emergence of football : sport, culture and society in the nineteenth century / Peter Swain.
Other titles: Routledge research in sports history.
Description: First Edition. | New York : Routledge, 2020. | Series: Routledge research in sports history | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020010414 (print) | LCCN 2020010415 (ebook) | ISBN 9781138571600 (Hardback) | ISBN 9780203702666 (eBook)
Subjects: LCSH: SoccerHistory19th century.
Classification: LCC GV942.5 .S93 2020 (print) | LCC GV942.5 (ebook) | DDC 796.334dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020010414
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020010415
ISBN: 978-1-138-57160-0 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-70266-6 (ebk)
Typeset in Sabon
by Wearset Ltd, Boldon, Tyne and Wear
Contents
The origins of football in Britain extend back to the Middle Ages, although the date of its exact genesis remains vague and obscure. Consequently, this book makes no attempt to speculate as to where or when football began. Furthermore, whilst navigating this challenging terrain an endeavour will be made to explain how and why Association Football became the major commercial sport in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, ranking alongside, and then surpassing, other commercial sports of the day such as horse racing, pedestrianism, cricket and boxing.
Most importantly, in concentrating on the nineteenth century consideration will be given to the evolution of football in the light of ongoing societal changes at an economic, social and cultural level as change came against the prevailing backdrop of the so-called Industrial Revolution. Increasing industrialisation, urbanisation, population growth and migrationary movement of people in search of work across the country had an enormous impact on sporting and cultural change. During the first half of the nineteenth century some of the largest cities in Britain had an incredible 30-fold increase in population whilst some provincial towns either stagnated or actually declined. Indeed, in 1820, there were only five British cities, besides London, with a population of more than 100,000 and a further ten with more than 40,000. Fifty years later, there were 17 cities with more than 100,000 and 31 towns with more than 40,000. It may also be that the popularity of forms of codified football, from the 1870s onwards, simply reflects a much more settled urban population rediscovering their own sporting cultural heritage that surrounded differing forms of football.
Furthermore, and concomitant with the previously noted radical population changes, came a far-reaching restructuring of the class system and urban hierarchy, with many northern towns and cities eclipsing older regional centres that had long dominated that order. Unsurprisingly, it was these northern towns and cities, with their large newly urbanised population, a stable industrial working class and expanding lower middle class, alongside a maturing industrial economy recovering from the economic distress of the 1860s,
Undoubtedly, the story of how football evolved and developed in the early to mid-nineteenth century had for many years been simple, straightforward and uncomplicated, based upon the certainties handed down by writers and historians such as Montagu Shearman, Charles Alcock, Alfred Gibson and William Pickford, Geoffrey Green, Morris Marples and Percy Young,
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