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Title:Tackling Rugby Myths : Rugby & New Zealand Society, 1854-2004
Author:Greg Ryan (ed)
ISBN:1877276979 : 9781877276972
Illustrations:b/w photos
Format:Paperback
Size:150x230mm
Pages:248
Weight: .4 Kg.
Published:University of Otago Press - April 2005
List Price: 15.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Australasian & Pacific history: Rugby Union: New Zealand


This book examines many aspects of rugby in New Zealand since about 1854, showing how rugby and identity have been bundled together for over a century, with both nation and game endowed with qualities of egalitarianism, innovation and rural pragmatism that have been promoted on the world stage. It tackles some of the very real myths surrounding this image of the game, disentangling assumptions from historical fact and coming up with some interesting angles on rugby’s past.