Zinon Papakonstantinou J. A. Mangan Boria Majumdar
From the early origins of the ancient Olympics to gladiatorial shows in late antiquity, these chapters, written by scholars on ancient sport, provide insights into key aspects of ancient sport in its historical, social and ideological setting.
From the early origins of the ancient Olympics to gladiatorial shows in late antiquity, these chapters, written by scholars on ancient sport, provide ...
Not only does this book deal with some of the most important driving factors of sport’s global attractiveness, but it also tackles important positive and negative impacts of sport as a global business on local and global communities of sport’s (potential) fans and participants.
Not only does this book deal with some of the most important driving factors of sport’s global attractiveness, but it also tackles important posi...
This volume of articles provides an overview of current Australian sporting cultures their impacts on the global community. It examines how changes to the structure and logic of sport have impacted on sports’ practice and administration.
This volume of articles provides an overview of current Australian sporting cultures their impacts on the global community. It examines how changes...
This volume looks at why minorities choose to participate in, or stay away from, soccer, thereby linking the issue to the status of the minorities in the political, social, cultural or economic life of a nation.
This volume looks at why minorities choose to participate in, or stay away from, soccer, thereby linking the issue to the status of the minorities in ...
This collection of transdisciplinary studies on the UEFA Finals traces back the contribution of Europe's greatest football spectacle to the production of European spaces, identities and boundaries.
This collection of transdisciplinary studies on the UEFA Finals traces back the contribution of Europe's greatest football spectacle to the production...
This book examines Australia's sporting relationships with the Asian region during the interwar period. Until now, Australia's sporting relationships with the Asian region have been neglected by scholars of Australian and Asian sports history, and the broader field of Australia's Asian context. Concentrating on the period of the 1920s and 1930s - when sporting relationships between Australia and a number of Asian nations emerged in a variety of sports - this book demonstrates the depth of these previously under-examined connections.
This book examines Australia's sporting relationships with the Asian region during the interwar period. Until now, Australia's sporting relationships ...
This volume came out of a three-day conference on sports, human rights and social change hosted by the University of Toronto forty years after Mexico and eighty days before the Beijing Opening Ceremony. The contributions to this volume capture the memories of activists who were 'on the ground' using sport as a site for the struggle for human rights and provide scholarly examinations of past and current human rights movements in sport. This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
This volume came out of a three-day conference on sports, human rights and social change hosted by the University of Toronto forty years after Mexico ...
The contributors to this volume examine the aspects of the cultural associations, symbolic interpretations and emotional significance of the idea of empire and, to some extent, with the post-imperial consequences.
The contributors to this volume examine the aspects of the cultural associations, symbolic interpretations and emotional significance of the idea of e...
Now unknown or forgotten, influential schoolmasters took the game of association football to many parts of England. They had several roles: they brought the game to individual schools, they established regional and national leagues and associations, and they founded professional football clubs. They also exported the game around the world, working as moral missionaries, passionate players and energetic entrepreneurs. The role of teachers in association football is a much neglected aspect of English cultural history. It is a story that deserves to be told because it allows a fundamental...
Now unknown or forgotten, influential schoolmasters took the game of association football to many parts of England. They had several roles: they br...
The first systematic inquiry into American insularity, exceptionalism and imperialism with a collection of provocative essays relating common threads of discussion from politics and economics to the sporting arena.
The first systematic inquiry into American insularity, exceptionalism and imperialism with a collection of provocative essays relating common threads ...
