New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe

ISBN-13: 9780367712976 / Miękka / 2023 / 204 str.

Opis

This book offers new perspectives on European sport history in the ‘long twentieth century’ designed to challenge and deconstruct what might be considered ‘traditional’ or more familiar Euro-centric conceptions and geographies of sport and leisure.

Spis treści

1. New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe: Perspectives from the ‘Long Twentieth Century’

Heather L. Dichter, Robert J. Lake and Mark Dyreson

2. Football and Politics in Twentieth-Century Hungary

Róbert Győri Szabó

3. Polo: Social Distinction and Sports in Spain, 1900–1950

José Miguel Hernández Barral

4. Keen on Massage: The Finnish Way to Olympic Success in the Twentieth Century

Kalle Rantala

5. ‘Heroes! Bring Happiness to Your Motherland! Long Live the Yunaks’: The Bulgarian Yunak Gymnastics Movement in the late Ottoman Period

Sabri Özçakır

6. Reexamining Violence and Trauma in the French Boxing Literature of the Interwar Period: Henri Decoin Quinze Rounds (1930) and Alfred Menguy Gueules Aplaties (1933)

Maxence Pascal Philippe Leconte

7. From ‘Wild’ Skaters to Hockey Players: The Beginnings of Ice Hockey in Slovenia

Tomaž Pavlin

8. The Influence of the 1992 Earth Summit on the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona: Awakening of the Olympic Environmental Dimension

Alberto Aragón-Pérez

9. Propaganda on Two Wheels: The Spanish Republican Team in the 1937 Tour de France

Bernat López

10. ‘Save the Long Skirt’: Women, Sports, and Fashion in Third Republic and Vichy France

Keith Rathbone

O autorze

Heather L. Dichter is associate professor of sport history and sport management at De Montfort University and a member of the International Centre for Sports History and Culture.

Robert J. Lake is in the Department of Sport Science at Douglas College, Canada.

Mark Dyreson is professor of kinesiology, an affiliate professor of history, and the director of research and educational programs at The Pennsylvania State University Center for the Study of Sports in Society.