Ebook: Power and global sport: zones of prestige, emulation and resistance

'Making touchdowns and hoop dreams': the NFL and the NBA in England / Joseph Maguire and Mark Falcous -- 'Back to the valley': local responses to the changing culture of football / Joseph Maguire and Catherine Possamai -- 'Cricketers of the empire': cash crops, mercenaries and symbols of sporting emancipation? / Joseph Maguire and David Stead -- 'In league together'?: global rugby league and local identities / Joseph Maguire and Catherine Possamai -- 'A world in union'?: rugby, globalisation, and Irish identity / Joseph Maguire and Jason Tuck