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Disreputable Pleasures
Less Virtuous Victorians at Play
Häftad, 2004
950 kr
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Many historians have claimed that respectability was the sharpest line of social division in Victorian society, even that the line between the 'respectable' and 'unrespectable' was more significant than between rich and poor. This irreverent and revisionist collection argues that they have …
Sport in South Asian Society
Past and Present
Inbunden, 2005
2506 kr
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A detailed study of sports' arrival, spread and advance in colonial and post-colonial South Asia. A selection of articles addresses critical issues of nationalism, communalism, commercialism and gender through the lens of sport. This book makes the point that the social histories of South Asian …
Sport and American Society
Exceptionalism, Insularity, ‘Imperialism’
Inbunden, 2007
1518 kr
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A special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport, this collection of provocative essays explores the many faces of sport in America. Drawing upon insights from anthropology, history, philosophy and sociology and with reference throughout to politics and economics, the …
Gender, Sport, Science
Selected writings of Roberta J. Park
Av J. A. Mangan, Patricia Vertinsky
Inbunden, 2008
2506 kr
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Roberta J. Park has been throughout her distinguished career a scholar with a mission - to win academic recognition of the significance of the body in culture and cultures. Her scholarship has earned her global esteem in the disciplines of Physical Education and Sports Studies for its penetrating …
Sport and American Society
Exceptionalism, Insularity, ‘Imperialism’
Häftad, 2009
501 kr
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A special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport, this collection of provocative essays explores the many faces of sport in America. Drawing upon insights from anthropology, history, philosophy and sociology and with reference throughout to politics and economics, the …
Olympic Aspirations
Realised and Unrealised
Inbunden, 2012
2820 kr
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Olympic Aspirations: Realised and Unrealised surveys more than a century of the Olympic Movement’s promotion of Olympic ideals internationally. The idea for Olympic Aspirations emerged at the world-renowned annual Beijing Academic Forum just months after the city hosted the impressive 2008 Beijing …
Triple Asian Olympics - Asia Rising
The Pursuit of National Identity, International Recognition and Global Esteem
Av J. A. Mangan, Sandra Collins m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2581 kr
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Realpolitik as a component of the Olympic Games held in East Asia has been largely ignored by historians. However, sport was an integral part of cultural diplomacy and the expression of national prowess for the three Games held in East Asia: 1964 Tokyo, 1988 Seoul and 2008 Beijing. It is time this …
Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended
Political, Cultural, Economic and Educational
Inbunden, 2009
2506 kr
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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 …
Sport in South Asian Society
Past and Present
Häftad, 2009
908 kr
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A detailed study of sports' arrival, spread and advance in colonial and post-colonial South Asia. A selection of articles addresses critical issues of nationalism, communalism, commercialism and gender through the lens of sport. This book makes the point that the social histories of South Asian …
Post-Beijing 2008: Geopolitics, Sport and the Pacific Rim
Av J. A. Mangan, Fan Hong
Inbunden, 2011
1823 kr
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In 2008, as few in the world are unaware, China was host to the world via the Beijing Olympics. The world watched the metamorphosis of Beijing from insecure capital to confident metropolis but, aware of it or not, the world was also watching the symbolic assertion, via the Games, of a rising …
Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended
Political, Cultural, Economic and Educational
Häftad, 2012
908 kr
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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 …
'Manufactured' Masculinity
Making Imperial Manliness, Morality and Militarism
Av J. A. Mangan
Inbunden, 2011
3149 kr
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'Manufactured' Masculinity should be considered essential reading for scholars in the humanities and social sciences at every level and in all parts of the academic world. It weaves together brilliantly the elements of the 'manufacture' of masculinity in the period world-famous 'public' school …
Sport, Militarism and the Great War
Martial Manliness and Armageddon
Av Thierry Terret, J. A. Mangan
Inbunden, 2012
2506 kr
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The Great War has been largely ignored by historians of sport. However sport was an integral part of cultural conditioning into both physiological and psychological military efficiency in the decades leading up to it. It is time to acknowledge that the Great War also had an influence on sport in …
'Manufactured' Masculinity
Making Imperial Manliness, Morality and Militarism
Av J. A. Mangan
Häftad, 2013
875 kr
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'Manufactured' Masculinity should be considered essential reading for scholars in the humanities and social sciences at every level and in all parts of the academic world. It weaves together brilliantly the elements of the 'manufacture' of masculinity in the period world-famous 'public' school …
Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School
The Emergence and Consolidation of an Educational Ideology
Av J. A. Mangan
Häftad, 2008
838 kr
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Games obsessed the Victorian and Edwardian public schools. This obsession has become widely known as athleticism. Now commonly regarded as an indulgence, it was in fact much more: a combination of hedonism and idealism. This is a major study of the games ethos which dominated the lives of many …
From Fair Sex to Feminism
Sport and the Socialization of Women in the Industrial and Post-Industrial Eras
Inbunden, 1987
2738 kr
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First published in 1987 with the aim of deepening understanding of the place of women in the cultural heritage of modern society, this collection of essays brings together the previously discrete perspectives of women's studies and the social history of sport. Using feminist ideas to explore the …
Pleasure, Profit, Proselytism
British Culture and Sport at Home and Abroad 1700-1914
Av J A Mangan
Inbunden, 1988
2581 kr
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This book examines aspects of sport which Britain nurtured within its own culture and also transmitted to overseas territories with the expansion of empire.
From Fair Sex to Feminism
Sport and the Socialization of Women in the Industrial and Post-Industrial Eras
Häftad, 2004
821 kr
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First published in 1987 with the aim of deepening understanding of the place of women in the cultural heritage of modern society, this collection of essays brings together the previously discrete perspectives of women's studies and the social history of sport. Using feminist ideas to explore the …
European Heroes
Myth, Identity, Sport
Av Pierre Lanfranchi, Richard Holt m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
1102 kr
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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
Av J A Mangan
Häftad, 1995
603 kr
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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 …
Sport in Europe
Politics, Class, Gender
Av J A Mangan
Inbunden, 1999
3058 kr
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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 …
Shaping the Superman
Fascist Body as Political Icon – Aryan Fascism
Av J A Mangan
Inbunden, 1999
3421 kr
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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.
Superman Supreme
Fascist Body as Political Icon - Global Fascism
Av J A Mangan
Inbunden, 2000
3898 kr
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The supremacy of the global fascist superman never became a reality but was certainly an intention. This work explores the use of the image of the male body in European, American and Asian fascism of varying degrees and various interpretations, and the differences and similarities involved.
Sport in Australasian Society
Past and Present
Inbunden, 2000
2738 kr
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As Sydney prepares to host the 2000 Olympic games, this study assesses the cultural impact of sport on the Australasian countries. Here, as in other parts of the world, sport is taken as an assertion of both individual and group identity, a demonstration of modernity and a source of personal, local …
Making European Masculinities
Sport, Europe, Gender
Av J. A. Mangan
Inbunden, 2000
997 kr
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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 …
Sport in Latin American Society
Past and Present
Av Lamartine DaCosta, J A Mangan
Inbunden, 2001
3246 kr
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This work deals with the infancy, adolescence and maturity of sport in Latin American society. It explores ways in which sport illuminates cultural migration and emigration and indigenous assimilation and adaptation.
Europe, Sport, World
Shaping Global Societies
Av J. A. Mangan
Inbunden, 2001
2581 kr
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The sports of Europe and the United States were imitated and assimilated and became symbols of national and cosmopolitan identity. This work examines the national and international importance of sport and its role in shaping post-millennium global culture.
Reformers, Sport, Modernizers
Middle-class Revolutionaries
Av Marcus Douglas Field, J. A. Mangan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
2820 kr
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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 …
Sport-Loving Society
Victorian and Edwardian Middle-Class England at Play
Av J A Mangan
Inbunden, 2006
3149 kr
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In a time of unprecedented political and economic transformation, the middle classes of Victorian and Edwardian England became principal players in a new social order. Nowhere did their culture, values and identity gain clearer expression than in their sports, and their influence is still felt in …
Disreputable Pleasures
Less Virtuous Victorians at Play
Inbunden, 2004
2581 kr
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Many historians have claimed that respectability was the sharpest line of social division in Victorian society, even that the line between the 'respectable' and 'unrespectable' was more significant than between rich and poor. This irreverent and revisionist collection argues that they have …
