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HRD. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In this landmark book, Philip Ross delivers an exhaustive chronicle of football's evolution across Merseyside, from its Victorian origins through to the present day. This meticulously researched work traces the story of the beautiful game in one of its great heartlands, capturing the social, economic and cultural forces that shaped football in Liverpool, the Wirral and surrounding areas.Ross charts the transformation of a nascent sport in the nineteenth century into a global entertainment business that puts the region on TV screens worldwide every weekend, while also detailing how the grassroots game at every level across Merseyside feeds this cultural and economic behemoth.Central to the story are the founding of iconic clubs: Everton's evolution from St. Domingo Methodist Church team in 1878, Liverpool's dramatic birth from the Anfield boardroom split of 1892, and the emergence of several other professional clubs and dozens of amateur sides across the region. Ross illuminates lesser-known tales and the countless works teams, church sides and amateur leagues that formed football's grassroots foundation. From Goodison Park's construction to Anfield's Spion Kop, from Sunday morning kickabouts to European Cup nights, every level of the game receives attention. The narrative is supplemented with detailed summaries of clubs at every level and the grounds they play on, as well as extensive appendices of competition winners - from the Premier League to the I Zingari League - published together in a single volume for the first time.With unprecedented detail on forgotten clubs, obscure competitions, as well as the characters who built the game, this definitive account reveals football as both cultural phenomenon and community cornerstone, making it essential reading for anyone seeking to understand Merseyside's unique place in football history.This is more than sports history - it's the story of how football became embedded in Merseyside's DNA. …

Etat : Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 396 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | In May 1994, Everton Football Club found themselves on the brink of disaster - an outcome no one could have imagined just a few years earlier. More than three decades after John Moores set out to make Everton the dominant force in English football, the club faced the grim prospect of relegation in the final match of the 1993/94 season against Wimbledon. Once known as the 'Mersey Millionaires, ' Everton had fallen to 'Mersey Mediocrities.' This downfall was unthinkable just nine years earlier, when Howard Kendall had led the club to the League Championship and European supremacy. However, Everton became collateral damage in the aftermath of the Heysel disaster, caught between English football authorities and UEFA. When Kendall departed in 1987 after securing a second league title, the club began a steep decline, leading to a period of intense instability that eventually threatened their long-held status in English football's top flight. In The End, Gavin Buckland's final book on the Moores era at Everton, the author explores the club's journey from towering success to the brink of relegation. The narrative captures how boardroom complacency and indecision combined with uncertainty over the club's ownership to allow Everton to fall behind their peers as a new era of English football dawned. Meticulously researched and piecing together interviews, archival materials and behind-the-scenes stories, The End is the authoritative and vivid telling of footballing aristocracy falling on hard times. Offering rich detail and insight, The End is a must-read for any football fan or historian of the modern game.…

The classic early history of Nader Shah (1688-1747) who founded the Afsharid Empire which extended from Tbilisi to Kabul. All early English editions of this work are scarce, and often without the frontispiece and map as present here. ESTC records only 5 copies of the present edition, only 2 of which complete. Sometimes erroneously attributed to Jean Antoine Du Cerceau. 8vo, [6], 163, [1]; 146, [16]pp., engraved portrait, folding map, later full polished calf gilt, covers ruled in gilt and blind, flat spine with geometric gilt panels, red morocco label, a very good copy. Provenance: Sir Robert Johnson Eden, Bart. (armorial bookplate).…

Second Edition, First Issue with the cancel title-page and excised dedication. Octavo, pp., [8], 3-146, 158 of appendix. Complete with 3 maps and 3 views, all folding. Contemporary speckled calf, gilt fillets to boards, blind ruled to board edges, sympathetically re-backed with gilt rules and ornaments within compartments to spine, titled in gilt to red leather spine-label. Contemporary ownership inscription of J. Lowe, F.S.A., to front paste-down. Marginal annotations in pencil to prelims. Corners rubbed, with further spots of rubbing to boards, top edge dusty. Light scattered foxing throughout, heavier to preliminaries, small tears to margins and joins of some plates, not affecting image, occasional soiling and toning to page edges. A well-preserved copy. A translation by Joseph Morgan of Philemon de la Motte's 'Voyage pour la redemption des captifs aux royaumes d'Alger et de Tunis', which was first published in English in the same year as 'Voyage to Algiers and Tunis, for the redemption of captives'. A fascinating captivity narrative, with a detailed account of the Spanish Reconquista within the voluminous appendix. Rare in commerce. ESTC T148818.…