1. Capitalism and the birth of modern sport -- 2. Class conflict and the decline of traditional games -- 3. Sport, nationalism and the French Revolution -- 4. The middle-class invention of amateurism -- 5. Women and the masculine kingdom of sport -- 6. The Victorian sporting industrial revolution -- 7. Sport and the age of empire -- 8. Unfair play: the racial politics of sport -- 9. Soccer's rise to globalism -- 10. The second revolution: sport between the world wars -- 11. Revolutionary sport -- 12. Sex, drugs and sport in the Cold War -- 13. Taking sides in the 1960s -- 14. The revolution is being televised -- 15. Winners and losers: sport in the New World Order.