Sport in the Global Society
Making the Rugby World: Race, Gender, Commerce
1st Edition
Edited
By Timothy J.L. Chandler, John Nauright
November 30, 1999
This book explores the expansion of rugby from its imperial and amateur upper-class white male core into other contexts throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The development of rugby in the racially divided communities of the setter empire and how this was viewed are explored ...
Flat Racing and British Society, 1790-1914: A Social and Economic History
1st Edition
By Mike Huggins
November 29, 1999
2001 North American Society for Sports History Book of the YearThis volume studies the formative period of racing between 1790 and 1914. This was a time when, despite the opposition of a respectable minority, attendance at horse races, betting on horses, or reading about racing increasingly became ...
Shaping the Superman: Fascist Body as Political Icon โ Aryan Fascism
1st Edition
Edited
By J A Mangan
September 29, 1999
This is a study of masculinity as a metaphor and especially of the muscular male body as a moral symbol. It explores the Nazi's preoccupation with the male body as an icon of political power, and the ideology and theories which propelled it....
Sport in Europe: Politics, Class, Gender
1st Edition
Edited
By J A Mangan
May 31, 1999
This book examines the cultural, social, political, economic and aesthetic history of Sport in Europe. As sport has grown, progressively replacing religion, in its power to excite passion, provide emotional escape, offer fraternal (and increasingly sororital) bonding, it has become an inescapable ...
Scoring for Britain: International Football and International Politics, 1900-1939
1st Edition
By Peter J. Beck
April 29, 1999
This work studies the links between international football and politics in Britain between 1900 and 1939. It shows how the British government saw sport as an instrument of policy and cultural propaganda....
France and the 1998 World Cup: The National Impact of a World Sporting Event
1st Edition
Edited
By Hugh Dauncey, Geoff Hare
February 28, 1999
The contributions here cover the major socio-economic, political, cultural and sporting dimensions of the 1998 World Cup. It is set within the sporting context of the history and organization of French football and the French tradition of using major sporting events to focus world attention....
Sporting Nationalisms: Identity, Ethnicity, Immigration and Assimilation
1st Edition
Edited
By Mike Cronin, David Mayall
October 01, 1998
This volume examines the ways in which sport shapes the experiences of various immigrant and minority groups and, in particular, looks at the relationship between sport, ethnic identity and ethnic relations. The articles in this volume are concerned primarily with British, American and Australian ...
The Race Game: Sport and Politics in South Africa
1st Edition
By Douglas Booth
April 30, 1998
1999 North American Society for Sports History Book of the YearDouglas Booth looks at the role of sport in the fostering of a new national identity in South Africa. He analyzes the effect of the 30-year sport boycott but concludes that sport will never unite South Africans except in the most ...
The Nordic World: Sport in Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Henrik Meinander
March 01, 1998
This volume is a significant contribution to the study of contemporary European culture. It explores the political, social and aesthetic impact of modern sport on the Northern European Nordic communities. Its concern is the relationship between Nordic culture, Nordic nations, changing Nordic ...
The Games Ethic and Imperialism: Aspects of the Diffusion of an Ideal
1st Edition
By J.A. Mangan
February 01, 1998
This is more than a description of the imperial spread of public school games: it considers hegemony and patronage, ideals and idealism, educational values and aspirations, cultural assimilation and adaptation and the dissemination of the moralistic ideology of athleticism....
The First Black Footballer: Arthur Wharton 1865-1930: An Absence of Memory
1st Edition
By Phil Vasili
September 30, 1997
Arthur Wharton was the world's first black professional footballer, and the first African to play professional cricket in Yorkshire and Lancashire leagues. Those promoting Empire as an expression of white supremacy found him a supreme irritation, and he eventually died in poverty....
Footbinding, Feminism and Freedom: The Liberation of Women's Bodies in Modern China
1st Edition
By Fan Hong
June 01, 1997
Through the medium of women's bodies, Fan Hong explores the significance of religious beliefs, cultural codes and political dogmas for gender relations, gender concepts and the human body in an Asian setting....