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.
New Directions in Sport History
1st Edition
Edited
By Duncan Stone, John Hughson, Rob Ellis
May 31, 2017
Emerging from the ‘history from below’ movement, sport history was marginalised for decades by those working within more traditional historical fields (and institutions). Although a degree of ignorance still exists, sport history has now acquired a level of credibility through the dedicated work of...
The Triple Asian Olympics - Asia Rising: The Pursuit of National Identity, International Recognition and Global Esteem
1st Edition
Edited
By J A Mangan, Sandra Collins, Gwang Ok
May 25, 2017
Realpolitik as a component of the Olympic Games held in East Asia has been largely ignored by historians. However, sport was an integral part of cultural diplomacy and the expression of national prowess for the three Games held in East Asia: 1964 Tokyo, 1988 Seoul and 2008 Beijing. It is time ...
Mapping an Empire of American Sport: Expansion, Assimilation, Adaptation and Resistance
1st Edition
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By Mark Dyreson, J A Mangan, Roberta J. Park
May 24, 2017
Since the mid-nineteenth century, the United States has used sport as a vehicle for spreading its influence and extending its power, especially in the Western Hemisphere and around the Pacific Rim, but also in every corner of the rest of the world. Through modern sport in general, and through ...
Sport, Militarism and the Great War: Martial Manliness and Armageddon
1st Edition
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By Thierry Terret, J A Mangan
May 22, 2017
The Great War has been largely ignored by historians of sport. However sport was an integral part of cultural conditioning into both physiological and psychological military efficiency in the decades leading up to it. It is time to acknowledge that the Great War also had an influence on sport in ...
Sport and Revolutionaries: Reclaiming the Historical Role of Sport in Social and Political Activism
1st Edition
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By John Nauright, David K Wiggins
March 29, 2017
This collection examines the role of sport in the lives of key revolutionary thinkers and leftist activists. In contrast to those who take a more romantic view of sport and believe in its apolitical nature, the chapters in this book help make clear how sport has served as a site for political ...
Representing the Nation: Sport and Spectacle in Post-revolutionary Mexico
1st Edition
By Claire Brewster, Keith Brewster
February 29, 2016
Mexico City’s staging of the 1968 Olympic Games should have been a pinnacle in Mexico’s post-revolutionary development: a moment when a nation at ease with itself played proud host to a global celebration of youthful vigour. Representing the Nation argues, however, that from the moment that the ...
The Asian Games: Modern Metaphor for ‘The Middle Kingdom’ Reborn: Political Statement, Cultural Assertion, Social Symbol
1st Edition
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By J A Mangan, Marcus P. Chu, Dong Jinxia
September 03, 2015
The premise of The Asian Games: Modern Metaphor for ‘The Middle Kingdom’ Reborn - Political Statement, Cultural Assertion, Social Symbol is emphatic. The Guangzhou 2010 Asian Games was a metaphor for hegemony and renaissance. China crushed the other Asian nations with the massive weight of its Gold...
Sport in the Middle East: Power, Politics, Ideology and Religion
1st Edition
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By Fan Hong
July 22, 2015
This collection provides interdisciplinary study of sport in the Middle East in the context of history, politics, policies, gender, religion, ideology and international relations. The chapters examine the role of the Pan-Arab Games in strengthening the bonds of Arab identity in Qatar, the ...
Olympic Aspirations: Realised and Unrealised
1st Edition
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By J A Mangan, Mark Dyreson
November 10, 2014
Olympic Aspirations: Realised and Unrealised surveys more than a century of the Olympic Movement’s promotion of Olympic ideals internationally. The idea for Olympic Aspirations emerged at the world-renowned annual Beijing Academic Forum just months after the city hosted the impressive 2008 Beijing ...
The Politicisation of Sport in Modern China: Communists and Champions
1st Edition
By Fan Hong, Lu Zhouxiang
November 10, 2014
The Politicisation of Sport in Modern China: Communist and Champions is the first book in English which examines in chronological order key issues in sport in the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 2012 in the context of Chinese history, politics and society. It explores the complexity ...
The Visual in Sport
1st Edition
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By Mike Huggins, Mike O'Mahony
June 19, 2014
This comprehensive, novel and exciting interdisciplinary collection brings together leading international authorities from the history of sport, social history, art history, film history, design history, cultural studies and related fields to explore the ways in which visual culture has shaped, and...
Women, Sport, Society: Further Reflections, Reaffirming Mary Wollstonecraft
1st Edition
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By Roberta J. Park, Patricia Vertinsky
May 16, 2014
During the last four decades women’s and gender history have become vibrant fields including studies of attitudes regarding the limited physical and other abilities of females as well as studies of the accomplishments of notable female athletes. We have become increasingly aware that women have ...