Full Description
This book brings together many new and exciting international approaches to sport heritage. It provides a thought-provoking sport heritage case study that would be of interest to students and researchers in history, geography, anthropology, marketing, and industry practitioners at sporting events.
Contents
1. Sport, heritage, and tourism 2. It still goes on: Football and the heritage of the Great War in Britain 3. Indigenous sport and heritage: Cherbourg's Ration Shed Museum 4. Identity in the "Road Racing Capital of the World": Heritage, geography and contested spaces 5. Heroes as heritage: The commoditization of sporting achievement 6. A Canterbury tale: Imaginative genealogies and existential heritage tourism at the St. Lawrence Ground
