Sport in the Global Society
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....
Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity
1st Edition
Edited
By Timothy J.L. Chandler, John Nauright
June 29, 1996
This text looks at how an understanding of rugby can provide insight into what it has meant to "be a man" in societies influenced by the ideals of Victorian upper and middle classes. It shows that rugby has been a means of promoting male exclusivity, but also been a means of cultural incorporation....
European Heroes: Myth, Identity, Sport
1st Edition
Edited
By Pierre Lanfranchi, Richard Holt, J A Mangan
March 01, 1996
Historians of popular culture have recently been addressing the role of myth, and now it is time that social historians of sport also examined it. The contributors to this collection of essays explore the symbolic meanings that have been attached to sport in Europe by considering some of the mythic...
Tribal Identities: Nationalism, Europe, Sport
1st Edition
Edited
By J A Mangan
December 01, 1995
Sport is far more than a national and international entertainment: it is a source of political identity, morale, pride and superiority. Tribal Identities explores the influence of sport on the nations of Europe as a mechanism of national solidarity promoting a sense of identity, unity, status and ...