Sport in the Global Society: Historical Perspectives
About the Book Series
As Robert Hands in The Times recently observed, the growth of sports studies in recent years has been considerable. This unique series with over one hundred volumes in the last decade has played its part. Politically, culturally, emotionally and aesthetically, sport is a major force in the modern world. Its impact will grow as the world embraces ever more tightly the contemporary secular trinity: the English language, technology and sport. Sport in the Global Society will continue to record sport's phenomenal progress across the world stage.
Historicizing the Pan-American Games
1st Edition
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By Bruce Kidd, Cesar Torres
October 18, 2018
The Pan-American Games, begun officially in 1951 in Buenos Aires and held in every region of the western hemisphere, have become one of the largest multi-sport games in the world. 6,132 athletes from 41 countries competed in 48 sports in the 2015 Games in Toronto, Canada. The Games are ...
Sport and Violence: Rethinking Elias
1st Edition
By Dominique Bodin, Luc Robène
October 18, 2018
The aim of this book, in discussing Elias’s theory, is not to refute it. Tendentiously, the theory works with its weaknesses and strong points and it has been enriched by a number of authors over time. The objective of this volume is to discuss the blind spots and, more simply, what is too often ...
Olympic Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Stephan Wassong, Richard Baka, Janice Forsyth
September 27, 2018
Historical research on the Olympic Movement is highly valuable as it displays processes of continuity and transformation by which knowledge building processes on the Olympic Movement, its structure and on Olympic sport can be expanded. The Olympic Movement can be addressed from multidisciplinary ...
Brazilian Sports History
1st Edition
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By Mauricio Drumond, Victor Andrade de Melo
September 18, 2018
Sport History is a growing field of study in Brazil. In the past decades, scholars from different areas have taken an increasing interest in studying how sports help us in understanding broader social, cultural, political and economic aspects of society. Barriers of language have often distanced ...
Global Perspectives on Sport and Physical Cultures
1st Edition
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By Annette R. Hofmann, Gerald Gems, Maureen Smith
September 04, 2018
Global Perspectives of Sport and Physical Culture is a compilation of diverse essays derived from the works of prominent international scholars that address significant international issues relative to sporting practices from a historical perspective. A variety of movement cultures are examined and...
Sport, War and Society in Australia and New Zealand
1st Edition
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By Martin Crotty, Rob Hess
September 04, 2018
Sport and war have been closely linked in Australian and New Zealand society since the nineteenth century. Sport has, variously, been advocated as appropriate training for war, lambasted as a distraction from the war effort, and resorted to as an escape from wartime trials and tribulations. War has...
Games and Sporting Events in History: Organisations, Performances and Impact
1st Edition
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By Annette R. Hofmann, Gerald Gems, Maureen Smith
August 23, 2018
Games and Sporting Events in History offers a broad global perspective on sports and games in Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia. A diverse set of topics covers education, medicine, therapy, body culture, gender, race, cross cultural flow, and political issues from the late nineteenth century ...
Sport and the Emancipation of European Women: The Struggle for Self-fulfilment
1st Edition
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By Gigliola Gori, J A Mangan
August 23, 2018
Sport and the Emancipation of European Women: the Struggle for Self-fulfilment explores the contributions of European women to the emancipation of women worldwide. It expands understanding of the need for their attitudes and actions and celebrates their achievements in freeing the female body from ...
Sports in Postcolonial Worlds
1st Edition
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By Nicolas Bancel, Thomas Riot, Stanislas Frenkiel
January 12, 2018
Civic engagement in this book is understood to include attendance at booked National Health Service appointments; compulsory attendance at school; the take-up of a variety of State benefits in cash and kind, such as Pension Credit and free school meals; and attendance at work. The book is the ...
The British World and the Five Rings: Essays in British Imperialism and the Modern Olympic Movement
1st Edition
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By Erik Nielsen, Matthew Llewellyn
January 12, 2018
Prior to the outbreak of World War II, the British presided over the largest Empire in world history, a vast transoceanic and transcontinental realm of dominions, colonies, protectorates and mandates that covered over one-quarter of the world’s land mass and comprised a population of over 450-...
Sport and Urban Space in Europe: Facilities, Industries, Identities
1st Edition
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By Thierry Terret, Sandra Heck
June 07, 2017
Filling a gap in the literature on the history of sport in Europe, the book brings together complementary studies on diverse aspects of the interrelation between sport and urban space. Going from geography to political science, from sports history to urban and transport history, it suggests a ...
The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games: Assessing the 30-Year Legacy
1st Edition
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By Matthew P. Llewellyn, John Gleaves, Wayne Wilson
June 07, 2017
The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games stand as the most profitable and arguably the most important event in the history of the modern Olympic movement. Fresh off the back of the financially disastrous Montreal Games of 1976 and the politically controversial Moscow Games of 1980, the Olympic movement ...