Tag: Peter J. Beck
Soccer & Society, Volume 26, 2025, Issue 7 | British Ambassadors in Soccer Kit or Transnational Actors? Football League Clubs on Close Season Foreign Tours, 1900-1939
Soccer, a.k.a (association) football is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, and aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world. Special Issue: British Ambassadors in Soccer Kit or Transnational Actors? Football League Clubs on Close Season Foreign Tours, 1900-1939.
Football as soft power: English football and British appeasement policy in the interwar years
Drawing on wide-ranging archival research, International Football as Cultural Diplomacy: Britain Versus the Dictators in the 1930s by Peter J. Beck (Routledge) examines the cultural diplomatic role played by British football in international affairs, British foreign policy, and international football during the 1930s. Kristian Gerner’s knowledgeable review hails Beck’s efforts to demonstrate the failure of Britain’s pre-war politics of appeasement, while also underlining that Beck’s book is really a book about soccer and a good read for football aficionados.
Sport in History, Volume 42, 2022, Issue 4 | BSSH 40th anniversary: reflecting on the past, present and future of the British Society of Sports History
Sport in History encourages the study of sport to illuminate broader historical issues and debates. Includes an extensive reviews section, an annual compendium of sports-related accessions to British archives and a 'Sport in Public History' section. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Alternative sites of sports history by Gary James.
“Entertaining reading about football as a vital element in the human comedy”
In Heather L. Dichter’s edited volume Soccer Diplomacy: International Relations and Football since 1914 (Univerity Press of Kentucky) an international group of experts analyzes the relationship between soccer and diplomacy. We handed the book to Kristian Gerner, professor of history at Lund University and our expert reviewer in sport and international relations. He found that the book offers readable analyses of soccer as an instrument of diplomacy, but questions the use and understanding of the chosen terminology.
Soccer & Society, Volume 22, 2021, Issue 6 | Soccer, Society, Culture, Nation: Select Contributions from Editorial Board Members
Soccer, a.k.a (association) football is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, and aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ’Developing a mental health research agenda for football referees by Paul Gorczynski & Tom Webb (open access).
