A celebratory volume to accompany the fourth Rugby World Cup, taking place in the UK in the year 2000. It traces the social and popular history of rugby, and includes chapters on such topics as the game's adoption by so many different countries, and the vexed decision to turn professional.
A scholar of Hellenistic and Prussian history, Droysen developed a historical theory that at the time was unprecedented in range and depth, and which remains to the present day a valuable key for understanding history as both an idea and a professional practice.
