Sport is far more than a national and international entertainment. It is a source of political identity, morale, pride and superiority. This text explores the influence of sport on the nations of Europe as a mechanism of national solidarity promoting a sense of identity, unity, status and esteem as a instrument of confrontation between nations, stimulating agression, stereotyping and images of superiority and as a cultural bond between nations across national boundaries, providing a common enthusiasm, shared goodwill the transcendence of national alliegences and opportunities for association,...
Sport is far more than a national and international entertainment. It is a source of political identity, morale, pride and superiority. This text expl...
A record of the role of selected middle-class individuals across Europe who made notable contributions to the early evolution of modern sport and who saw success in modern sport as an expression of human qualities to be admired, applauded and encouraged. They viewed sport, sometimes self-interestedly but not always self-interestedly, as a medium of personal, collective and national virtue. It is the first general consideration of a selection of these innovatory pioneers and proselytisers who placed Europe at the forefront of major developments in contemporary world sport - now a phenomenon of...
A record of the role of selected middle-class individuals across Europe who made notable contributions to the early evolution of modern sport and who ...
As sport has grown, progressively replacing religion, in its power to excite passion, provide emotional escape, offer fraternal (and increasingly sororital) bonding, it has come to loom larger and larger in the lives of Europeans and others. It has become an inescapable reality linking public environment with intimate experience and thus offers the historian an opportunity to inspect and attempt to grasp all the dimensions of the recent past and their relative share in individual and collective experience. This collection considers the evolution of modern sport in Europe and examines its role...
As sport has grown, progressively replacing religion, in its power to excite passion, provide emotional escape, offer fraternal (and increasingly soro...
Introducing themes of racial/political unification, commercialization, the media and globalization, this book explores the role of cricket and sport in each of the competing nations, with particular reference to the Cricket World Cup.
Introducing themes of racial/political unification, commercialization, the media and globalization, this book explores the role of cricket and sport i...
Sport and recreation were essential to bring meaning and pleasure to mining families, and were fundamental to the complex social relationships within and between communities. This book explores life in the mining villages of the north-east of England in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - a time of massive social and industrial change.
Sport and recreation were essential to bring meaning and pleasure to mining families, and were fundamental to the complex social relationships within ...
Investigates why elite English sports - such as rugby and cricket - became national sports in New Zealand and Australia, and asks why working class sports - such as football - have travelled less well to these areas. Focusing on these sports, the author tracks narratives and myths, tracing the passage of colonial truths, behaviours and practices.
Investigates why elite English sports - such as rugby and cricket - became national sports in New Zealand and Australia, and asks why working class sp...
The late Victorian and Edwardian officer class viewed hunting and big game hunting in particular, as a sound preparation for imperial warfare. For the imperial officer in the making, the 'blooding' hunting ritual was a visible 'hallmark' of stirling martial masculinity. Sir Henry Newbolt, the period poet of subaltern self-sacrifice, typically considered hunting as essential for the creation of a 'masculine sporting spirit' necessary for the consolidation and extension of the empire. Hunting was seen as a manifestation of Darwinian masculinity that maintained a pre-ordained hierarchical...
The late Victorian and Edwardian officer class viewed hunting and big game hunting in particular, as a sound preparation for imperial warfare. For ...
Describes the varieties of sport, games and physical education practiced in Western Europe between 450-1650 AD. This book presents changing nature of geopolitical structures, educational systems, religious institutions and the practice of warfare and medicine. It is suitable for various historians of sport and culture.
Describes the varieties of sport, games and physical education practiced in Western Europe between 450-1650 AD. This book presents changing nature of ...
For more than a century, the Olympics have been the modern world's most significant sporting event. Indeed, they deserve much credit for globalizing sport beyond the boundaries of the Anglo-American universe, where it originated, into broader global realms. By the 1930s, the Olympics had become a global mega-event that occupied the attention of the media, the interest of the public and the energies of nation-states. Since then, projected by television, funded by global capital and fattened by the desires of nations to garner international prestige, the Olympics have grown to gargantuan...
For more than a century, the Olympics have been the modern world's most significant sporting event. Indeed, they deserve much credit for globalizin...
