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Taekwondo
From a Martial Art to a Martial Sport
Av Udo Moenig
Häftad, 2016
755 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the historical, political, and technical evolution of taekwondo. Many of the supposedly ‘traditional’ and ‘ancient’ Korean cultural elements attached to taekwondo are, in fact, remnants of East Asia’s modernization drive, and largely inherited from the …
Sport, International Politics and the Nordic States in the Cold War
The Small State Perspective
Av Martin Ericsson, Jens Ljunggren
Inbunden, 2026
2542 kr
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This is the first book to examine the nexus of sport and international politics in the Nordic countries during the Cold War period. It fills a significant gap in the literature on the history of the Cold War and on the history of international sport, and it opens up a previously missing small-state …
Cricket: A Political History of the Global Game, 1945-2017
Av Stephen Wagg
Häftad, 2019
770 kr
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Cricket is an enduring paradox. On the one hand, it symbolises much that is outmoded: imperialism; a leisured elite; a rural, aristocratic Englishness. On the other, it endures as a global game and does so by skilful adaptation, trading partly on its mythic past and partly on its capacity to …
Women, Horse Sports and Liberation
Equestrianism and Britain from the 18th to the 20th Centuries
Inbunden, 2021
2578 kr
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*Shortlisted for the 2022 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize*This book is the first, full-length scholarly examination of British women’s involvement in equestrianism from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, as well as the corresponding transformations of gender, class, sport, and national …
Sports Media History
Culture, Technology, Identity
Inbunden, 2020
2504 kr
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This research collection explores the ongoing interaction between sports, media, and society throughout important periods in history, from the nineteenth century to the present day. It examines both historical moments and broader trends in sports, with an emphasis on the media’s role.Encompassing a …
Early Development of Football
Contemporary Debates
Av Graham Curry
Inbunden, 2019
2504 kr
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This fascinating collection brings together leading football historians and sociologists from the UK, Germany, the USA and Australia to offer fresh perspectives on the early development of football (soccer), not only illuminating our understanding of the early history of the world’s most popular …
Sport, War and the British
1850 to the Present
Inbunden, 2020
2578 kr
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Spanning the colonial campaigns of the Victorian age to the War on Terror after 9/11, this study explores the role sport was perceived to have played in the lives and work of military personnel, and examines how sporting language and imagery were deployed to shape and reconfigure civilian society’s …
Britain’s Olympic Women
A History
Inbunden, 2020
2257 kr
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Britain has a long and distinguished history as an Olympic nation. However, most Olympic histories have focused on men’s sport. This is the first book to tell the story of Britain’s Olympic women, how they changed Olympic spectacle and how, in turn, they have reinterpreted the Games. Exploring the …
History of Chinese Martial Arts
Av Fuhua Huang, Fan Hong
Häftad, 2020
762 kr
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Chinese martial arts have a long, meaningful history and deep cultural roots. They blend the physical components of combat with strategy, philosophy and tradition, distinguishing them from Western sports.A History of Chinese Martial Arts is the most authoritative study ever written on this topic, …
Emergence of Football
Sport, Culture and Society in the Nineteenth Century
Av Peter Swain
Häftad, 2023
665 kr
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The Emergence of Football fuses sports history into mainstream economic, social and cultural history, setting the development of the people’s game against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution.The book challenges conventional histories of nineteenth-century football that surrounded mass games …
Britain’s Olympic Women
A History
Häftad, 2022
710 kr
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Britain has a long and distinguished history as an Olympic nation. However, most Olympic histories have focused on men’s sport. This is the first book to tell the story of Britain’s Olympic women, how they changed Olympic spectacle and how, in turn, they have reinterpreted the Games. Exploring the …
Sports Coaching in Europe
Cultural Histories
Av Dave Day
Inbunden, 2021
2578 kr
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This book explores the historical development of coaching traditions across Europe, placing national approaches to coaching within their cultural and political context. Sports coaching is a social practice that has been shaped by its cultural context, resulting in different countries being …
Sports Coaching in Europe
Cultural Histories
Av Dave Day
Häftad, 2023
665 kr
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This book explores the historical development of coaching traditions across Europe, placing national approaches to coaching within their cultural and political context. Sports coaching is a social practice that has been shaped by its cultural context, resulting in different countries being …
Sports Media History
Culture, Technology, Identity
Häftad, 2022
689 kr
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This research collection explores the ongoing interaction between sports, media, and society throughout important periods in history, from the nineteenth century to the present day. It examines both historical moments and broader trends in sports, with an emphasis on the media’s role.Encompassing a …
Black Press and Black Baseball, 1915-1955
A Devil’s Bargain
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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This book brings into dramatic relief the dilemma, or devil's bargain, that faced the black press in first building up black baseball, then crusading for the sport's integration and, as a result of that largely successful campaign, ultimately encouraging and even ensuring the demise of those same …
Early Development of Football
Contemporary Debates
Av Graham Curry
Häftad, 2021
710 kr
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This fascinating collection brings together leading football historians and sociologists from the UK, Germany, the USA and Australia to offer fresh perspectives on the early development of football (soccer), not only illuminating our understanding of the early history of the world’s most popular …
Women, Horse Sports and Liberation
Equestrianism and Britain from the 18th to the 20th Centuries
Häftad, 2023
665 kr
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*Shortlisted for the 2022 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize*This book is the first, full-length scholarly examination of British women’s involvement in equestrianism from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, as well as the corresponding transformations of gender, class, sport, and national …
Wrestling in Britain
Sporting Entertainments, Celebrity and Audiences
Häftad, 2019
740 kr
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At the intersection of sport, entertainment and performance, wrestling occupies a unique position in British popular culture. This is the first book to offer a detailed historical and cultural analysis of British professional wrestling, exploring the shifting popularity of the sport as well as its …
Making Sport History
Disciplines, identities and the historiography of sport
Inbunden, 2014
2578 kr
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The field of sport history is a relatively new research domain, situated at the intersection of a number of disciplines and sub-disciplines. This interdisciplinarity has created interesting avenues for growth and fresh thinking but also inherent problems of coherence and identity. Making Sport …
Physical Culture and Sport in Soviet Society
Propaganda, Acculturation, and Transformation in the 1920s and 1930s
Av Susan Grant
Häftad, 2014
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934 kr
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From its very inception the Soviet state valued the merits and benefits of physical culture, which included not only sport but also health, hygiene, education, labour and defence. Physical culture propaganda was directed at the Soviet population, and even more particularly at young people, women …
Social History of Tennis in Britain
Av Robert Lake
Inbunden, 2014
2818 kr
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Winner of the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize 2015- from the British Society for Sports History.From its advent in the mid-late nineteenth century as a garden-party pastime to its development into a highly commercialised and professionalised high-performance sport, the history of tennis in Britain …
Representing the Sporting Past in Museums and Halls of Fame
Häftad, 2013
934 kr
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We live in a "museum age," and sport museums are part of this phenomenon. In this book, leading international sport history scholars examine sport museums including renowned institutions like the Olympic Museum in the Swiss city of Lausanne, the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum in Baltimore, the …
Physical Culture and Sport in Soviet Society
Propaganda, Acculturation, and Transformation in the 1920s and 1930s
Av Susan Grant
Inbunden, 2012
2578 kr
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From its very inception the Soviet state valued the merits and benefits of physical culture, which included not only sport but also health, hygiene, education, labour and defence. Physical culture propaganda was directed at the Soviet population, and even more particularly at young people, women …
Representing the Sporting Past in Museums and Halls of Fame
Inbunden, 2011
2818 kr
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We live in a "museum age," and sport museums are part of this phenomenon. In this book, leading international sport history scholars examine sport museums including renowned institutions like the Olympic Museum in the Swiss city of Lausanne, the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum in Baltimore, the …
Contemporary History of Women's Sport, Part One
Sporting Women, 1850-1960
Inbunden, 2014
2818 kr
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This book is an historical survey of women’s sport from 1850-1960. It looks at some of the more recent methodological approaches to writing sports history and raises questions about how the history of women’s sport has so far been shaped by academic writers. Questions explored in this text include: …
Wrestling in Britain
Sporting Entertainments, Celebrity and Audiences
Inbunden, 2018
2578 kr
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At the intersection of sport, entertainment and performance, wrestling occupies a unique position in British popular culture. This is the first book to offer a detailed historical and cultural analysis of British professional wrestling, exploring the shifting popularity of the sport as well as its …
Sport, War and the British
1850 to the Present
Häftad, 2021
710 kr
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Spanning the colonial campaigns of the Victorian age to the War on Terror after 9/11, this study explores the role sport was perceived to have played in the lives and work of military personnel, and examines how sporting language and imagery were deployed to shape and reconfigure civilian society’s …
Sport and Protest in the Black Atlantic
Av Michael J. Gennaro, Brian M. McGowan
Inbunden, 2022
2190 kr
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*Winner of the North American Society for Sport History 2024 Anthology Book Award*This is the first book to focus on race, sport, protest, and the Black Atlantic. It brings together innovative scholarship on African, African-American, Afro-European, Afro-Brazilian, and Afro-Caribbean sports in a …
Sport and Protest in the Black Atlantic
Av Michael J. Gennaro, Brian M. McGowan
Häftad, 2024
685 kr
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*Winner of the North American Society for Sport History 2024 Anthology Book Award*This is the first book to focus on race, sport, protest, and the Black Atlantic. It brings together innovative scholarship on African, African-American, Afro-European, Afro-Brazilian, and Afro-Caribbean sports in a …
Sport and Polish Society in the Communist Era
Small Towns and History from Below
Av Marta Kurkowska-Budzan, Marcin Stasiak
Inbunden, 2023
2578 kr
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Using the history of sport in the small towns and local communities of Poland, this book shines new light on the everyday reality of life under a communist regime in Eastern Europe in the 20th century.This book shows how socio-cultural history – ‘history from below’ – that draws on rich sources, …
