Stadiums in Calcutta: A New Genre of Sports Culture 9781638065791

The Sports Franchise Game: Cities in Pursuit of Sports Franchises, Events, Stadiums, and Arenas 9780812209150

Kenneth Shropshire describes the franchise warfare that pits city against city in the bidding competition to capture a m

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Modern Coliseum: Stadiums and American Culture 9780812294071

In Modern Coliseum, Benjamin D. Lisle tracks changes in stadium design and culture since World War II. Featuring over se

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Cricket, Public Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Calcutta [New ed.] 1108494587, 9781108494588

What prompts common people to kill a guard and rob an office they thought had some tickets for a Test match? Why does a

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The US Sports Film: A Genre of American Dream Time 9783110760354, 9783110757019

Sports and film are media that create time. They are temporal not only in the sense that they are defined and regulated

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Birth of a Colonial City: Calcutta 9781138366787

Long before Calcutta was ‘discovered’ by Job Charnock, it thrived by the Hugli since times immemorial. This book, and it

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The US Sports Film: A Genre of American Dream Time 9783110760354, 9783110757019

Sports and film are media that create time. They are temporal not only in the sense that they are defined and regulated

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The Allure of Sports in Western Culture 9781487519605

Sports are the most popular spectator events in the history of the world. This volume demonstrates how sports shape soci

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Calcutta in Shorts

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Taste of Time: A Food History of Calcutta 9789390477579, 9789390477692

Calcutta, once the nucleus of the Raj, was at the heart of a thriving economy and unparalleled administration. Over the

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Calcutta : essays in urban history

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